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High Times August 2016 


4 Contents 


HIGH TIMES 


AUGUS 




At the stroke of midnight, B-Real lit up and Cypress Hill took the stage at the Ogden Theater in Denver, 
ushering in our national stoner holiday. A potent musical lineup had already primed the crowd for 
4/20. Action Bronson had stoked it. Chron ixx & Zinc fence Redemption had elevated it. And George 
Clinton, as always, whipped up a smoke storm of Mile Highpowered funk! 

-Rocky Mountain 420, page 86 


6 Internet 
8 Editor’s Letter 
10 Letters 
12 Contact High 
21 HighwitnessNews 
Patients Out of Time 
and High Five 

28 High Style 
32 Entertainment 

NYC’s hard rocking Tower, 
Dilly Dally & Reviews 

38 Cannabusiness 
40 THMQ 

107 Dear Danko 

114 Gear 

116 Edibles 

120 Dr. Mitch 

122 Dab Department 

124 NORMLizer/ FFOTM 

134 Dope Rider 

136 Pix of the Crop 

140 Next Month 

146 The Pot 40 


45 You Must Be This High to Ride 

High Times’ yearly 420 celebration kicked off in 
San Bernardino with the top strains in America 
competing for the 2016 US Cannabis Cup & Carni¬ 
val. By Emily Cegielski 

54 Maximizing Summer Crops 

Increase your harvest by 20 percent or more. 

Learn horticultural techniques for both indoor 
and outdoor gardens—including FIM-ing, super¬ 
cropping and trellising. By Nico Escondido 

66 The Solo Grow 

Frustrated by high pot prices? Don’t like what’s 
available? Maybe it’s time to start growing your 
own personal garden. By Dan Skye 

81 Holland’s Quandary 

Eighteen months after High Times staged its last 
Cannabis Cup in Amsterdam, we return to the 


Netherlands and ask the burning question: How 
legal is Dutch weed really? By Graham Dockery 

86 Rochy Mountain 420 

In Denver, Cypress Hill rang in 420 at the toke of 
midnight. Find out which buds took home prizes 
at the High Times Colorado Cup. 

93 How Dylan Turned On the Beatles 

In this excerpt from his new book How to Smoke 
Pot (Properly), David Bienenstock discusses the 
“headiquette” for getting someone high for the 
first time—and his case study just happens to 
involve a handful of musical legends. 

99 The High Times Interview: Wiz Khalifa 

We catch up with the hip-hop superstar to 
get the lowdown on his smoking habits, 
what he listens to when high, and why his 
life is so good. By Drew Millard 













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» We Want To 
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@A_DamnSqueze - @HIGH_TIMES_ 
Mag majority of politicians are in the 
closet with their marijuana issues. My 
boy Barry hasn’t lived up to his pro 
pot stance 


@martooner-@HIGH_TIMES_Mag I 
caught the Red Eye from Denver to 
Seattle at 3 in the afternoon. #mari- 
juanahealth #comedy.#humor.jokes. 

@keithmack1 - @HIGH_TIMES_Mag 
ignorance is the Gateway drug 

@lotuslocsstudio - @HIGH_TIMES_ 
Mag maybe if @realDonaldTrump 
was on drugs he’d actually be legit. 
Nah, who am I kidding. #FeelTheBern 

@dondreak - @HIGH_TIMES_Mag 
How could something so beautiful 
be illegal? 


@Delta9Dabber - @HIGH_TIMES_ 
Mag Hey I just bought my subscrip¬ 
tion to your mag today! Got my first 
edition and it’s incredible, there was 
so much information 


@mike420kush - @HIGH_TIMES_Mag 
One time I was so high that I chowed 
down on 2 containers of canned tuna 
like it was manna from Heaven. 


@MikeSyphard - @HIGH_TIMES_Mag 
thanks THC for clearing up my mind 
so I can sleep 

@mikebranc - @HIGH_TIMES_Mag 
THIS JUST IN: I’m baked out of my skull! 

@Wake_in_Bake420 - @HIGH_TIMES_ 
Mag sitting on the front porch smok¬ 
ing out while its raining....PRICELESS 

@HowieUjr - @HIGH_TIMES Mag I 
think Tommy Chong is going to live 
forever. Weed is good for humans 

@LovelyBones313 - @HIGH_TIMES_ 
Mag I personally feel that some 
people drive better while stoned. It 
eliminates my road rage, and helps 
keep me calm xoxo 





) Residents of Medical 
States Choose Vapes and 
Edibles Over Smoking 



POT POLL 


Would You Grow Pot 
If It Was Legal in Your State? 


Researchers in Lebanon, NH used 
survey data from Facebook and 
Qualtrics, an online survey platform, 
to find out that people living in states 
with medical marijuana laws smoke 
less pot, and instead choose to 
vaporize or eat it instead. This may 
seem obvious to the average High 
Times reader, but policy makers 
need published information to see 
that people choose healthier options 
over smoking when marijuana gets 
legalized. 


Find all this and more at hightimes.com. 


I Glass Artist of the Month: Chaiah Sullivan 

At the age of 14 Chaiah Sullivan picked up a torch and instantg 
fell in love. For five years it was just a hobby. He first appren¬ 
ticed at a soft glass, hot shop studio in 2007. Then in 2010, 
following intensive instruction from top artists in the industry| 
he ventured forth as a pro, experimenting with many different 
styles and techniques. 

In 2013, Chaiah created a realistic, unique cactus design 
and ran with it. Since then, his glass fame has only grown. 

He’s done several collaborations with different artists and 
even one with the cactus master himself, Darby Holm. 

“I’m known for my cacti,” he says. “I’m strongly influenced 1| 
the beauty and elegance of nature.” 


B 

No, 1 couldn’t even keep a cactus alive if 1 tried. 


Maybe next spring, if 1 get my shit together. 

1 

No, 1 prefer to keep my dealer/dispensary/other in business. 

96% 

Absolutely, yes! 


Warm weather opens up a whole new world for stoners-we all know 
that there’s nothing better than getting baked in the sun. And if you 
have a green thumb, then you’re probably excited to take it to the next 
level by breaking out the gardening tools and starting your own crop. 

Of course, unless you live in a legal state or aren’t afraid to take 
some risks, then you’re probably not cultivating cannabis... But we 
asked our online readers: What if you could? Would you grow pot if it 
was legal in your state? 

And it turns out that yes, yes you would. With over 5,000 votes, an 
overwhelming majority said “Absolutely, yes!” Only 60 respondents 
admitted they had no green thumb, with 93 people saying “Maybe 
next spring.” Cast your vote in our latest poll online! 


I Mr. Spliff Is Back! 

High Times’ original Mr. Spliff charac¬ 
ter has graced T-shirts and hoodies 
in years past, but now he’s back and 
this time, he’s updated and on your 
phone. That’s right, he’s one of many 
new High Times emojis! 

Last year, High Times teamed up 
with a new app called YourMoji to 
bring you a set of the dankest emojis, 
stickers and GIFs your smartphone 
has ever seen, and our latest rollout 
has reintroduced Mr. Spliff, along 
with a brand new Mary Jane pot leaf 
character. 

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8 Editor's Letter 


High Times August 20J®§ 



The Ultimate Prize 


O ne of the oldest arguments for legalization goes like 
this: “If alcohol and cigarettes are legal, marijuana 
should be too.” And on the surface, that makes perfect 
sense. We should be allowed to ingest whatever sub¬ 
stances we want, without fear of prosecution, as long 
as we don’t harm others. But I’ve never liked the comparison. Booze 
and tobacco are categorically harmful: They cause disease and death. 

And so we ask ourselves every day: How can the government 
persist in its refusal to recognize the mountain of evidence—now at 
Himalayan proportions—that cannabis can benefit society’s health 
and stability? And how can our elected leaders stand by and allow 
Americans to suffer persecution and prosecution for their choice of 
medicine or recreational substance? 

After all, the government has recognized the serious harm caused 
by cigarettes and, as a result, prohibited tobacco advertising. There 
was a time when hard-liquor ads were banned, too. (Of course, those 
days are over, and booze ads are everywhere.) So it’s not as if politi¬ 
cians are unaware of the problems—and yet these substances remain 
widely available. 

Frankly, that kind of official hypocrisy is what keeps High Times 
going. Idiocy and stubbornness on this scale motivate us each month 
to champion cannabis even more vociferously. 

Every voice is needed now. In this issue, rap superstar Wiz Khalifa 
adds his to the cacophony of shout-outs for legalization. The heroic 
advocacy group Patients Out of Time makes the case for all who 
desperately need cannabis for medicinal use. Plus, in “Growing 
Solo,” we guide beginners in their quest to start their own personal 
gardens. Growing cannabis is the ultimate act of defiance in the face 
of oppressive pot laws. 

We have a lot of fun in the pages of High Times, but we never lose 
sight of the ultimate prize: freedom for the plant, and freedom for 
ourselves. So keep the pressure on, everyone! Each day we’re getting 
closer. 


Dan Skye 

Editor-in-chief 



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Vexed Veteran 

It seems the US government has no con¬ 
cern for its disabled veterans [“Shame 
on America,” June ’16]. I am one, and I 
tested positive for marijuana one time. 
For that, the VA quickly stopped my 
pain medications. I’ve had very positive 
results from the pain-relieving effects 
of smoking marijuana, and I feel left 
behind. These laws should have been 
changed years ago for a plant that is 
a natural and very helpful medication 
for many people. Thanks for your fight 
to help get the laws changed, and for 
keeping people informed of marijuana’s 
positive benefits. 

Gary 


Woof! 

I have a happy, healthy 14-year-old Lab/ 
Chow mix. He has no health issues 
besides old age and a little bit of arthri¬ 
tis. He can see and hear well. He suf¬ 
fered from heartworms a long time ago 
and recovered well. This dog has been 
smoking since he was young. I blow it 
in his nose. He doesn’t fight me, and he 
lets me know when he wants it. He also 
lets me know when he’s done. Every 
time I take him for his checkup, the vet 
is always surprised at how healthy he 
is. Today the vet told me that he still 
has the teeth of a young dog. His heart 
sounds good and his eyes look good. No, 
this may not be for every pet. But mine 
is a good example of how marijuana 
doesn’t hurt them. 


Amber W. 


While it’s not advisable to get your pet high on 
THC, some folks are turning to medical-mari¬ 
juana treatments for their furry loved ones. CBD- 
rich tinctures and treats can medicate animals 
suffering from anxiety, joint pain, seizures and 
more. Check out “Creature Comforts” by Mary 
Jane Gibson in our May 2016 issue. 


Marijuana Mess in Montana 

Not only are our “red state” politicians 
limiting access to medical cannabis 
through our State Supreme Court, but 
we have two petitions that will most 
likely appear on this November’s ballot. 
One is to legalize cannabis for recre¬ 
ational use, and the other is to make 
cannabis illegal and align our state with 
federal laws. We voted for medical can¬ 
nabis by an astounding 62 to 38 percent 
in 2004, but now some wealthy business¬ 
men are putting up big money to have 
it repealed by labeling their cause “Safe 


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Our state could possibly 
legalize cannabis and make 
it illegal at the same time! 


Montana.” But the point of this is that 
our state could possibly legalize cannabis 
and make it illegal at the same time! 
Which bill would trump the other? What 
a conundrum we have here! 

Matt 0. 


Love From Uruguay 

It’s great to see your magazine doing 
such great work spreading the weed 
news all over the planet. We can only 
dream about what you guys have accom¬ 
plished in the US. We are inspired by 
what is going on in your country. 

Daniel Marxs 
Uruguay 


Indoor vs. Outdoor: 

The Debate Continues 

I thought it may be constructive to be in 
touch regarding the critique included in 
the “Indoor vs. Outdoor” issue [May 16] 
of the peer-reviewed research I published 
back in 2012 estimating the energy use 
associated with indoor grows. The two 
notes by your science editor, Sirius J, 
contain several serious errors of fact and 
misrepresentations of the referenced 
study. Details aside, it would be useful for 
High Times to meet the energy question 
with proactive curiosity and a desire 
to pinpoint best practices regarding 


energy and the 
environment. 

_ Clearly much more 

needs to be done, and 
whether more research validated 
my exact findings or found the 
numbers too low or too high, even 
by a large amount, the qualitative 
implications would be the same: 
This is an under-attended issue 
that deserves more attention. 

Meanwhile, nothing provided 
in the High Times articles sup¬ 
port the editorial statement that 
the original analysis is “wildly 
inflated,” and in four years there 
have been no substantive critiques 
of the analysis. Without debating 
what portion of production goes 
to medical versus recreational 
use, the sad fact (in lieu of new 
analysis) is that the US uses twice 
as much electricity and spends six 
times as much money on power 
bills for indoor cannabis as for all 
other pharmaceuticals combined. 
Aside from what the numbers do 
or don’t say, it’s not constructive 
to deflect attention away from 
one legitimate problem to an ostensibly 
bigger one. There is no single cause of 
climate change, and thus no single solu¬ 
tion. We need to seek emissions reduc¬ 
tions anywhere and everywhere we can. 
It is not a zero-sum situation. Cannabis 
is a rare “sector” where energy efficiency 
and climate pollution have, sadly, never 
been a serious focus; it is, arguably, four 
decades behind the rest of the economy 
when it comes to getting smart about 
energy-using technology. 

Many are waiting to see an industry 
more forthcoming about its carbon foot¬ 
print, and one that signals more interest 
in managing it and raising consumer 
awareness. High Times has a unique 
opportunity to become part of that 
process. To imply that the problem sits 
solely with the energy companies (and 
the fuels they choose to make electricity) 
surely addresses only half the problem. 
Meanwhile, it is incumbent upon the 
trade press to carefully read their source 
documents and perform the fact-check¬ 
ing and verification of manufacturers’ 
product claims that readers expect. 

Evan Mills, PhD 
Energy and climate-change analyst, 
Energy Associates 


Read Evan Mills’s full letter online at 
hightimes.com, as well as science editor 
Sirius J’s response. 
















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WE BERN’D THESE BUDS Southern California’s finest marijuana 
strains were on display at the U.S. Cannabis Cup in San Bernardino 
for High Times’ pre-420 celebration. Read more about the awesome 
event, and see more of the winning champions in “You Must Be This 
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COLORADO BUDS Feast your eyes on a few of the finest 
marijuana strains in the world! These are just some of the 
flower winners of the 2016 High Times Colorado Cannabis 
Cup. For more coverage of our illustrious event, turn to 
page 86. Photos by Lochfoot 




GHOST TRAIN HAZE 

(Green Man Cannabis - Downtown) 


BOBSAGET 

(Natural Remedies/Organic 
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STAR KILLER 

(Green Man Cannabis - Downtown) 


GORILLA GLUE 

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CHEMD.O.G. 

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BURKLE 

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LARRY WALKER-OG 

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TORABORA 

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ROYAL HIGHNESS 

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A Meeting of Minds & Medicine 

Keeping up with the dynamic devlopments in medical 
marijuana research is a fulltime job. A Virginia advocacy group 
has been up to the task for over 20 years. By Mike DiPaola 


When Patients Out of Time, an advocacy 
group dedicated to medical marijuana 
education and outreach, held its annual 
conference in Baltimore, MD, another 
event in the state to the north served to 
demonstrate why the group is so neces¬ 
sary. That same weekend, Pennsylvania 
legalized medical marijuana, thereby 


opening up a new population of cannabis 
patients. 

There are now 24 states, plus the Dis¬ 
trict of Columbia, with medical mari¬ 
juana laws—as well as another 17 states 
with CBD-only regulations—and so there 
is an ever-growing need to educate both 
patients and their doctors on the efficacy 


and safety of cannabis qua medicine. 

Attendees in Baltimore included 
MMJ patients suffering from chronic 
pain, seizure disorders, irritable bowel 
syndrome, and cancer; there were also 
physicians, nurses, other healthcare pro¬ 
fessionals and lawyers. The featured 
speakers included scientists, doctors, 
other patients, sympathetic law enforce¬ 
ment officials and survivors of the War 
on Drugs. 

Educating the public on the health 
applications of cannabis is essential to 
ending prohibition on weed, which only 
makes sense, since the prohibition of 
cannabis was itself promoted by mass 
public misinformation. It is necessary to 
educate healthcare professionals as well. 

“My challenge to a lot of the patients 
is to go back to your clinician or health¬ 
care practitioner and ask them what 
they can tell you about the endocannab- 
inoid system,” declared Patients presi¬ 
dent and nurse Mary Lynn Mathre. “If 
they don’t know or can’t explain it, I can 
tell them where you can get educated. If 
they don’t, go find another physician!” 

Patients Out of Time has been rais¬ 
ing awareness for two decades, and in 
2014 it ramped up its conference series 
to meet every year “to respond to the 
dynamic changes in the realm of ther¬ 
apeutic cannabis,” such as the ever- 
expanding med-pot jurisdictions like 
newly liberated Pennsylvania. 

Aside from the burgeoning patient- 
consumer base, there are also constant 
developments in medical science in 
general and the endocannabinoid sys¬ 
tem in particular that need to be made 
accessible to the public. In Baltimore, 
top researchers and practitioners in the 
field spoke on cannabis and brain sci¬ 
ence, pregnancy, skin applications, as 
well as on arcane topics like “pharma- 
covigilance” (staying on top of adverse 
effects of drug-related treatments), and 
on practical ones like “How to Talk to 
Your Budtender.” Almost all of the talks 
eventually circled back to the body’s 




















High Times August 2016 

“The idea that there’s a physician today who doesn’t 
want to understand the most significant finding in the 
human body is wrong. Almost every disease, you can 
trace bach to the endocannabinoid system.” 


22 Highwitness News 

« endogenous cannabinoid receptors. 

“The idea that there’s a physi¬ 
cian today who doesn’t want to under¬ 
stand the most significant finding in the 
human body is wrong,” decried Mathre. 
“Almost every disease, you can trace back 
to the endocannabinoid system.” 

Keeping track of the latest research on 
cannabinoids is full time work (on aver¬ 
age, every day sees two more scientific 
publications on the subject), but even 
developments with other drugs have 
an impact on medical cannabis. Case 
in point: the Centers for Disease Con¬ 
trol and Prevention released in March 
a rather urgent memorandum on the 
explosion of opioid use and addiction in 
the US. Cannabis is already being used 
to treat opioid addiction; soon it will 
replace, at least in part, the tons of opi¬ 
ates that are being prescribed inconti¬ 
nently by US doctors. 

Raising awareness was not limited to 
healthcare issues. When Jeff Mizanskey, 
a Missouri man recently released from 
decades of prison for marijuana posses¬ 
sion (see “A Crime of Justice,” January 
2016), spoke, it was a somber reminder 
that our criminal justice system is also in 
dire need of repair. 

Incredibly, Mizanskey has not grown 


cynical about the injustice he’d endured. 
“I decided that if I came out all bitter 
like you see a lot of people do, it means 
they won. And I’m not going to let them 
win.” 

The conference wasn’t all harsh news. 
Dr. Ethan Russo schooled the audience 
on terpenoids, especially pinene and lim- 
onene, which may be helpful for users 
who feel the psychoactive effects of THC 
more than they’d prefer. He even iden¬ 
tified an ameliorative and nutritious 
antidote for the too-heroic dose: pesto 
linguine with pine nuts, with a glass of 
lemonade on the side. “The lemonade 
has to be made with the lemon rind,” he 
told me later, “not just the juice. The zest 
is the richest source of the limonene.” 

The doctor explained that “the limo¬ 
nene brightens the mood and acts as an 
antidepressant—to lesser extent, an anti¬ 
anxiety agent.” 

While the star of the weekend—the 
marijuana plant itself—has been lauded 
for the diverse benefits garnered from all 


parts of the plant, leaves, stems, seeds 
and flowers, we often overlook the part 
of the plant underground. Nutrition¬ 
ist Natasha Ryz spoke on the medic¬ 
inal applications for the roots which, 
although devoid of either CBD or THC, 
have been in use for many centuries-and 
still remain largely mysterious today. 

As Pennsylvania has now joined the 
path to wellness, more people will be 
exposed to the reality that marijuana 
is not the demon weed they had been 
taught to believe. With each new popu¬ 
lation granted access to medicine comes 
more research. 

More research leads, hopefully, to new 
applications for cannabis as medicine. 
The expanding knowledge base feeds 
the need for a group like Patients Out of 
Time to keep up with the explosion of 
information—for both patients and their 
healthcare providers. 

In a way, the prohibitionists were right 
about one thing: marijuana is a gateway 
drug. A gateway to better health. ^ 


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Animal (Pot) Planet 

Many animals have an endocannabinoid system, so they benefit from cannabis too .By Mark Miller 



Dogs 

Virtually every month, 
there’s a new story about 
cannabis saving a canine. 

In February, the Chi-Town 
Mommy Mayhem blog 
reported the story of Leah, 
a 7-year-old Great Dane 
with bone cancer. Leah was 
given the commercial prod¬ 
uct Canna Companion, 
a proprietary blend that 
offers phytocannabinoids 
and terpenes in capsule 
form. She went from barely 
walking to running around 
the yard and avoided 
amputation. Leah is also liv¬ 
ing longer than expected. 



Birds 

Hemp seeds provide protein 
and essential fatty acids 
for our feathered friends. 
Studies indicate they like the 
taste, and it bolsters their 
immune systems too. AUK 
“Feed the Birds” initiative in 
2014 advocated spreading 
hemp and cannabis seeds 
over public land. The symbol 
of the campaign was the 
linnet, a type of finch whose 
scientific name is Carduelis 
cannabina, after its favorite 
seed! And a 2013 German 
study found that chickens 
fed a hemp-based diet laid 
healthier, omega-3-rich eggs. 



Horses 

Cannabis has been used to 
treat horse injuries since 
antiquity. Today there’s 
Lame Away, a commercially 
available non-psychoactive 
topical offering therapeutic 
relief from inflammation that 
traditional meds and other 
alternative therapies fail 
to provide. Meanwhile, the 
Plains Industrial Hemp com¬ 
pany uses the soft inner core 
of the cannabis stalk to make 
its horse bedding, which has 
an absorbency six times its 
own weight, allowing horses 
more comfort in their stalls 
after urination. 



Monkeys 

SIV, the primate equiva¬ 
lent of HIV, causes a form 
of AIDS in the rhesus 
macaque, one of the world’s 
most numerous monkey 
species. In a 2014 study by 
Louisiana State University, 
researchers administered 
THC for 17 months to male 
rhesus macaques that 
were infected with SIV. The 
primates who received a 
twice-daily dose consis¬ 
tently had higher numbers 
of healthy cells. The THC 
also reduced viral load (SIV 
in the blood) and tissue 
inflammation. 



Cows 

Swiss farmers previously 
fed their livestock beneficial 
and benign hemp fodder. 

But in 2005, the Federal Agri¬ 
culture Office outlawed this 
practice, after a government 
study indicated that THC was 
being passed into dairy milk. 
However, that “research” 
involved feeding THC pills to 
the cows; it didn’t utilize the 
same low-THC hemp fodder 
actually given to the bovines. 
Individual farmers balked at 
the ban, reporting that cows 
fed with hemp fodder were 
healthier and produced 
more milk. 
























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Arresting Aroma 

Denver officials are taking steps 
to reduce the odor of growing 
pot. The City Council’s Safety & 
Well-being Committee advanced 
a measure containing changes to 
Denver’s odor laws, regulated by 
the city’s Department of Environ¬ 
mental Health (DEH). 

The expanded ordinance 
would allow business owners and 
employees as well as residents to 
file formal objections to pot plant 
odors they detect. Five olfactory 
complaints must be filed against 
a particular cultivation site to 
trigger inspection and penalties. 
However, the new rules increase 
the time period during which the 
five necessary complaints can be 
accumulated to 30 days. It had 
been just 12 hours. 


Pot > Wine, 

Bread and Milk 

In 2015, Spokane County, WA 
sold more legal marijuana than 
traditional food staples bread and 
milk, based on figures from the 
Washington State Liquor and Can¬ 
nabis Board and a poll of house¬ 
hold expenses by the U.S. Census 
Bureau. 

A total of $43 million was spent on 
pot in Spokane County last year, 
which breaks down to $226 per 
household. By contrast, the typical 
residence spent $155 on milk and 
$110 on bread. Buds even bested 
the county’s wine consumption 
average of $155 last year. Only beer 
topped pot, with a per-home aver¬ 
age of $233. 

And there’s no sign of pot pur¬ 
chases slowing down, as monthly 
sales in Spokane topped $5 million 
for the first time in March 2016. 

At that pace, reefer retail in the 
county is projected to soon surpass 
revenues at bookstores, museums 
and even live concert venues 
according to the Washington 
Department of Revenue. 



Inside the 
Wide World 
of Weed 


MILE HIGHER 


Despite the incred¬ 
ible progress made 
by the marijuana 
movement in 
recent years, can¬ 
nabis is still not 
taken seriously by 
some. When it was 
reported on April 1 
that the dispensary 
chain Native Roots 
is interested in 
acquiring nam¬ 
ing rights to the 
stadium where the 
reigning Super Bowl 
champion Denver 
Broncos play, 
most news outlets 
assumed it was an 
April Fools’ Day 
prank. 

But the news was 
no joke. The com¬ 
pany even prepared 
a rendering of the 
potential brand¬ 
ing (above) but 
acknowledged that 
they may ultimately 
have to lose the 
giant pot leaf. 

Sports Authority 
currently pays $6 
million a year for 
the stadium naming 
rights. However, the 
company recently 
declared bank¬ 
ruptcy, meaning the 
rights could soon 
become available. 

Native Roots 
confirmed they 
have the capital 
to acquire naming 
rights. According to 
founding partner 
Rhett Jordan, 
“Native Roots was 
born and raised in 
Colorado and we 
are the natural can¬ 
didate for this.” 


Whoopi & Maya 
are teaming up. 


Kush & Whoopi 


Whoopi Goldberg has announced her entree into the cannabis industry. 
The veteran pot smoker is taking her talents to the world of medical 
marijuana with the announcement of her new company Whoopi & Maya. 

Whoopi’s venture is a partnership with Cannabis Cup-winning pot 
chef Maya Elisabeth, founder of Om Edibles. The company’s focus is on 
cannabis-infused products that reduce menstrual pain and discomfort. 

Whoopi & Maya’s Signature Line will initially offer four products: a 
THC-infused tincture for serious discomfort, a relaxing THC-infused bath 
soak, a topical rub for localized pain and raw sipping chocolate infused 
with CBDorTHC. 

Currently, Whoopi & Maya products are only available to California 
medical pot patients. The Signature Line is available in select dispensa¬ 
ries throughout the state. 

Whoopi is proceeding carefully with her new business, telling USA 
Today, “I want to go nice and slow with this. I don’t want this to be a joke 
to people. It’s not a joke to women.” 


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RIP Mr. Nice 

Famed marijuana smuggler and counterculture figure 
Howard Marks has died of cancer at the age of 70. 
Marks, widely known as "Mr. Nice,” began trafficking 
pot while studying at Oxford University. Through his 
smuggling career, Marks is said to have teamed up with 
the mafia, the Irish Republican Army, the Yakuza, the 
Brotherhood of Eternal Love, the PLO and many others 
to move “thousands of tons” of pot and hash. Marks 
often made use of rock bands’ touring gear to smuggle 
pot (without telling the bands). 

Marks had the reputation of a rakish figure who 
eschewed hard drugs despite a legendary jet-setter 
lifestyle. He proved elusive to law enforcement over the 
years and even beat serious smuggling charges in 1980. 

However, in 1990, he was sentenced to 25 years in 
prison in the United States. He was released in 1995. 

Marks reinvented himself as an author and mari¬ 
juana activist later in life. After his cancer diagnosis, he 
told the Observer, “It’s impossible to regret any part of 
my life when I feel happy and I am happy now.” 


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Jaywalking in DC 

The Secret Service treated a giant, 
fake joint carried by protesters like 
it was a threat to national security 
during a recent pot rally in Wash¬ 
ington, D.C., according to event 
organizer Adam Eidinger. 

The 51-foot inflatable jay was 
hoisted up like a psychedelic parade 
float marching towards the White 
House. However, a phalanx of Secret 
Service police attempted to block the 
500 marchers—who were chant¬ 
ing “Free the Tree for PTSD”— from 
bringing their symbolic prop all the 
way to President Obama’s doorstep. 
Authorities citing security con¬ 
cerns deflated the giant joint. But, 
Eidinger and company blew it back 
up in front of the White House in 
time for the 4:20 ceremonies. 

Seed Sowing Setback 

Canadian meta-marijuana activ¬ 
ist Dana Larsen was arrested by 
police and charged with trafficking 
cannabis and possession for the 
purpose of trafficking. The arrest 
occurred at a Days Inn in Calgary, 
the second stop of his 14-city 
“Overgrow the Government Tour.” 
As reported last month, Larsen 
had pledged to give away a million 
cannabis seeds across Canada in 
an effort to raise awareness and 
pressure the government into fol¬ 
lowing through on legalizing pot. 

According to officials, when 
the original supply of giveaway 
seeds was depleted at the hotel, 
an associate of Larsen’s went to 
their van for more and was placed 
under arrest. When Larsen came 
outside to investigate, he allegedly 
continued distributing seeds to 
supporters in view of police and 
was taken into custody. 

Cops claim a search of Larsen’s 
van uncovered 119 grams of pot 
and nearly 1100 seeds worth about 
$30,000 (a figure Larsen scoffed 
at). Mr. Larsen made bail and 
continued on with his tour. 


DID YOU PACK 
YOUR GRINDER? 


A marijuana 
grinder shaped 
like an explosive 
device caused a 
stir at a Washing¬ 
ton State airport 
in April. As TSA 
agents screened 
passengers inside 
Bellingham Inter¬ 
national Airport, 
they discovered a 
device that looked 
like a grenade 
inside a traveler’s 
carry-on luggage. 
Officers searched 
the bag and found 
a camouflage 
object resembling 
a hand grenade. 

The discovery 
led to a police 
investigation and 
the evacuation of 
the screening and 
boarding areas 
of the airport. 

Four flights were 
delayed as a 
result. Ultimately 
the police depart¬ 
ment’s bomb 
squad examined 
the object and 
concluded it was a 
grinder designed 
to resemble a 
grenade. 

The owner of 
the grinder was 
detained, but 
then released and 
even permitted to 
board his flight. 

Officials made 
the usual assur¬ 
ances that the 
TSA isn’t looking 
for drugs, only 
objects pos¬ 
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As we approach the fall sports season, cannabis is—and will continue to be—a hot 
topic, as more players and teams embrace its therapeutic value. The athlete who 
already enjoys the luxurious, natural pain-management benefits of spa treatment 
will really appreciate the game-changing effects that come from supercharging the 
experience with cannabis. 

In my book The Cannabis Spa at Home , I teach a set of temperature techniques 
in my “Quick Start” chapter for working with olive oil, which I believe—and some 
science research has demonstrated—is the best fat for extracting cannabinoids and 
the other essential ingredients of cannabis, such as terpenes. Olive oil is a versatile 
fat that requires no other ingredients to become a soft ointment, or a hard salve 
in the refrigerator or freezer. This recipe will let you create your very own batch of 
soothing salve at home. 


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Sports-Recovery Salve 

3 bay laurel leaves 
10 whole cloves 

1 whole lemon, chopped in eight pieces 

2 grams kief or cold-water hash, or the equiv¬ 
alent in flowers (you can use as much can¬ 
nabis as your needs require—this amount is a 
good starting point for your first sports topical) 
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3 to 5 cups water (to ensure that the water 
doesn’t run low and scorch the oil during the 
simmering process, you may add more water 
as needed) 

Put everything into a pan and cover. Sim¬ 
mer, on medium heat for 60 minutes. With¬ 
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minutes. 

Strain through a fine-mesh strainer into 
a glass bowl and allow the oil and water to 
separate completely. Using a turkey baster 
or syringe, carefully remove the oil from the 
top of the water, leaving just a slight slick of 
oil on the surface to ensure that no water 
has been taken up into the baster or syringe. 
(We’ll make use of that leftover oil slick and 
herbal water in a warm athletic wrap, so 
don’t throw it away!) 

Empty the contents of the baster or 
syringe into a clean glass container with 
a lid. To harden the salve, screw the lid on 
tightly and place in the freezer for three to 
six hours to let it harden. 

Next, you’ll want to make a warm wrap 
to use on your aching muscles, joints or 
sprains with the rest of the oil slick and the 
herbal cooking water. Warm these leftovers 
again to a temperature as hot as you can 
stand it, then soak a clean towel or wrap 
in it to soak everything up. Wrap around 
the affected area of your body for 15 to 20 
minutes. 

When you remove the salve from the 
freezer, it will be hard, cool, and easy to 
manipulate and apply to your skin. When 
you’re finished using the salve, just put it 
back in the freezer to set it up again. 



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Get Lifted, Then Listen 

Podcasts have exploded lately-it seems like there’s a show for every topic, and sifting through them 
all to find the right one for your mood (and your strain of choice) can be overwhelming. Here are our 
picks for new on-demand shows to check out. By Katie Compa 



Bodega Boys 

Bronx-born-and-raised 
comedians Desus Nice 
and The Kid Mero bring 
you news, pop culture, 
sports stories and 
shenanigans each week 
from New York City’s Red 
Bull Studios (which they 
mention constantly). 
Desus and Mero are 
hilarious, quick-talking 
and even quicker-witted— 
all the best of old-school 
morning talk radio, woke 
and whenever you want 
it. Potheads receive 
frequent shout-outs from 
the hosts. Be advised: 

If you don’t listen at 
home, you’ll probably 
be laughing out loud in 
public. 

soundcloud.com/bodega- 

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StarTalk Radio 

Celebrated astrophysicist 
and incorrigible mind- 
blower Neil deGrasse 
Tyson and a stable of 
hilarious guest hosts 
(including comics Eugene 
Mirman, Chuck Nice and 
Leighann Lord, plus noted 
science guy Bill Nye) talk 
to celebrities, special 
guests and one another 
about all things outer 
space. To contemplate 
topics like asteroids 
hitting Earth, the science 
of time, and the periodic 
table (the latter with 
special guest Edward 
Snowden), you’ll want 
to gather your favorite 
edibles before you start 
listening. 
startalkradio.net 

Song Exploder 

Musician and composer 
Hrishikesh Hirway 
interviews musicians 
ranging from Bjork to 
U2to RJD2 about the 
inspiration for a song 
they’ve written and the 
process they followed to 
put the pieces together. 


Episodes are around 20 
minutes each, so you 
can blow through the 
entire series in not much 
time at all. There’s even 
an 11-minute episode 
about one of the longest 
theme songs of any TV 
show (.Game of Thrones. 
clocking in at two 
minutes). 
songexpioder.net 

Gastropod 

If you’re like me, you like 
to enjoy the munchies- 
and knowledge is power. 
Gastropod’s hosts, food 
writers Nicola Twilley 
and Cynthia Graber, talk 
to experts about the 
science and history of 
how we eat. While they 
occasionally border on 
snobbish (probably an 
occupational hazard), the 
information they have to 
impart is worth staying 
for. Episodes focus on 
topics like keeping your 
sandwich from getting 
soggy, fake grape flavor, 
and how mushrooms are 
like animals. 
gastropod.com 

The Ratchet Hatchet 

Each week, writer, actor 
and standup comic Jess 
Wood and her cranky co¬ 


host Josh Homer present 
a mashup of personal 
stories, uncensored sex 
talk and freaky news 
of the week. It’s Mae 
West meets Redd Foxx 
(if you don’t know the 
names, better Google 
them!) in a collision of 
sidesplitting hilarity and 
NSFW, no-holds-barred 
honesty. Jess and Josh 
swear, get dark and 
argue passionately about 
... pretty much anything 
that catches their 
attention. 

theratchethatchet.com 

A Window to the Magic 

Disney super-fan Paul 
Barrie’s podcast takes 
listeners on a weekly 
walk through the Magic 
Kingdom. It’s a weird, 
wonderful, sometimes 
downright bizarre 
acoustic trip through 
rides like Innerspace, 
Pinocchio, and (earworm 
sufferers, be warned) 

It’s a Small World. Now 
over 500 episodes, the 
podcast intersperses the 
rides with breadcrumbs 
from Paul’s life-he 
and his high-school 
sweetheart reconnected, 
married and split up 
(mostly captured on the 


show)—that contrast 
poignantly with the 
background of acid- 
trippy cheer. 

pbarrie.libsyn.com 

99% Invisible 
This podcast discusses 
different elements of 
structure or design 
that you’ve probably 
never noticed before¬ 
in fortune cookies. 
Monopoly boards, the 
game of basketball, an 
underground storage 
facility for nuclear 
waste in New Mexico, 
even the ins and outs 
of residential lawn-care 
espionage. If you like 
to look at details on 
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never heard of military 
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can do your dishes to 130 
episodes of knowledge. 
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Think Again 

Host Jason Gots 
welcomes well-known 
guests like Paul F. 
Tompkins, Henry Rollins 
and Norman Lear, 
springing three topics 
on each that they aren’t 
prepared to address, 
and then letting the 
conversation flow from 


there. Episodes are 
usually less than half an 
hour, and they get right 
to the good stuff. This 
is a great pick for an 
afternoon smoking-and- 
bingeing session. 
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The Tommy Chong 
Podcast 

Tommy Chong and his 
son Paris have a new 
podcast (after taking a 
break from its previous 
incarnation. The Chong 
and Chong Show). They 
toke up, then discuss 
the latest in politics, 
pop culture and, of 
course, weed. Tommy 
is a treasure of the 
pothead community for 
good reason, but he’s 
teetering delightfully on 
the edge of “Get off my 
lawn!” territory these 
days, so Paris provides 
a nice counterweight 
to his sometimes- 
curmudgeonly 
commentary. 
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Snoop Dogg (these days 
a.k.a. “Nemo Hoes”) gets 
together with celebrity 
friends like Mike 
Epps, Jamie Foxx and 
Redman to reminisce, 
crack jokes and light 
up in the studio. (Check 
out his interview with 
Cheech & Chong, which 
is basically a war of 
compliments.) Snoop 
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in what his guests 
have to say, and they 
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32 Entertainment 


High Times August 2016 



Scaling the Heights 

The hard-rocking Tower are headed for the top-and they’ll 
take your grandma with them. By Polly Watson 


Smoking a joint 
is "like putting 
a quarter in the 
arcade: Some¬ 
thing’s gonna 
come out on 
guitar.” 


Tower have been around for 
only a little bit more than a 
year, but they already have 
something most bands don’t: 
instantly memorable songs. 

At the show I saw them play, 
they sent the headliners 
crawling—looking for riffs, no 
doubt. 

The NYC band plays glo¬ 
rious, lick-loaded hard rock, 
and while they revel in the 
trappings of their genre 
(spandex, bell sleeves and 
long hair), their self-aware¬ 
ness sets them apart from 
their peers. Most hard-rock 
bands I encounter seem to be 
either approaching their craft 
tongue-in-cheek (wig rock, 
fuck off!), or else strangely 
unaware that they’re of an 
anachronous breed in the 
modern musical landscape. 
Tower have both feet planted 
firmly in the present—it’s 


just that they seem to have 
decided to enjoy it. 

The band claims standard- 
bearers like Black Sabbath, 
Heart and Dio as influences. 
Vocalist Sarabeth Linden is 
a belter in the vein of Jeni 
Foster and Suzi Cato (of the 
underappreciated ’80s NYC 
bands Princess Pang and 
Smashed Gladys, respectively) 
who isn’t afraid of Bruce 
Dickinson-style flourishes. 
Lead ax James Danzo honed 
his BC Rich skills with thrash 
vets Deceased and a slew 
of local bands, and he and 
the rest of Tower—guitarist 
Zak Penley, bassist Philippe 
Arman and drummer Jesse 
Balgley—ably marry swagger 
and strut to Ginsu-fine shred¬ 
ding. The result is raucous 
rippers like “Tower” (in which 
the tearing of an eagle’s wings 
are mentioned, speaking 


of shred) and the anthemic 
“Party (Ready to Roll).” 

When High Times catches 
up with Tower, they’re just 
back from their first tour, 
which found them support¬ 
ing the legendary Pentagram 
at SXSW’s Heavy Metal Park¬ 
ing Lot showcase. They’re sit¬ 
ting around Linden’s kitchen 
table, listening to Foreigner 
and Stevie Nicks, drinking 
beer and sharing a massive 
bowl of popcorn. Outside, 
it’s pitch-black and icy; here, 
shirts are off, and leather 
jackets and sunglasses are 
in abundance. It’s clear that 


fwer bring the party wher- 
fer they are. 

Sometimes this happens 
f intentionally. Danzo recalls 
fcidentally getting his grand¬ 
father high. He and a friend 
f d made a batch of weedy 
Bats and left them on the 
funter. “Next day, my mom 
f ls me at work and says, 
■hat’s wrong with Nan? She 
■s she’s floating outside her 
jf dy, above the bed.’” 

Linden laughs and 
f scribes the first time she 
fv her mom getting high: 
f cried!” Now she and her 
father share edibles. Arman, 
l'o has since given up weed, 
talks about smoking a strain 
called the Pope in college. “I 
woke up with a girlfriend!” 
he grins. 

Linden’s hot-pink peign¬ 
oir flutters as she gets up 
to lead her crew to her tiny 
rock’n’roll bedroom for the 
photo shoot, but Penley wants 
to let High Times readers 
know that the band is work¬ 
ing on a full-length record, 
their first. “We’re in super¬ 
writing mode,” he says, stand¬ 
ing and picking up an old 
Playboy that just happens to 
be lying around. 

Will smoking inform the 
writing? “Hell, yeah!” says 
Danzo, grabbing a last hand¬ 
ful of popcorn. “It’s like put¬ 
ting a quarter in the arcade: 
Something’s gonna come out 
on guitar.” ^ 



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34 Entertainment 


High Times August 2016 



Wake & Bake With Dilly Dally 

The Toronto rockers talk DIY, their debut album, and dope on their first 
headlining North American tour By Ira Gamerman 


Singer Katie Monks’s friend¬ 
ship with guitarist Liz Ball 
was forged at punk shows, 
party houses, jam sessions 
and while searching for 
smoke in the sketchier parts 
of their native Toronto. 

“This Rastafarian dude 
was like, ‘You wanna buy a 
CD?”’ Katie recalls. “And we 
were like, ‘No, we want weed.’ 
Then he winked and gave 
me a jewel case with a gram 
in it—but no CD. Would’ve 
been a great way to plug your 
record—I would’ve blazed 
and listened.” She relates this 
hilarious Stoner tale with a 
laugh that contrasts sharply 
with her brooding and fero¬ 
cious stage presence. 

“Music and weed brought 
us together,” Liz adds agree¬ 
ably, rolling up a fat joint of 
Bay Dream for our wake-and- 
bake session in Bushwick, 
NYC. 

Their band, Dilly Dally, 


are touring North America 
as headliners for the first 
time and just played a pair 
of packed shows in Brooklyn. 
The band closed out 2015 by 
releasing Sore, a powerhouse 
debut album six years in the 
making, on Partisan Records. 
Their energetic showcases 
were a major highlight at 
CMJ 2015, and their album 
has received gushing cover¬ 
age from the New York Times, 
Newsweek, MTV, Pitchfork 
and Vice. 

Sore is a raw and emotive 
blast of guitar-fueled angst 
with nods to grunge, pop, 
punk and stoner metal, tied 
together by Katie’s throaty 
and insistent growl. Tracks 
like the sultry “Desire” and 
the anthemic “Purple Rage” 
buzz with noise and aggres¬ 
sion that no casual listener 
would ever mistake for 
fellow Canadians Drake or 
Justin Bieber (but they still 


do a mean cover of Drizzy’s 
“Know Yourself.”) Dilly Daily’s 
version of pop is heavier, 
drenched in feedback and 
influenced by the thriving 
local DIY punk scene they 
grew up a part of. 

Katie is the younger sister 
of Tokyo Police Club singer 
Dave Monks and has been 
actively involved in Toronto’s 
music community since her 
early teen years. “The shows 
we go to are five bucks and 
right down the street or 
on the West End, where all 
our friends live,” the singer 
proudly proclaims of her 
punk-rock social scene. 

“And it’ll be a show that our 


“You can smoke 
weed all over the 
place in Toronto 
and no one will 
fuck with you.’ 


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■nds booked.” 
producer Josh Korody— 
ftwn for his work on 
(urns by fellow Canadian 
(iks Fucked Up—stepped in 
Record the songs that were 
Bposed to be Dilly Daily’s 
(mt after another producer 
| through. When the result- 
| album didn’t see a release, 
Bie and Liz ditched their 
thm section and picked 
i?MBen Reinhartz and Jimmy 

|When we started play- 
r>H with Ben and Tony, that’s 
^■en the record started com- 
jU together,” Katie says. “The 
l]M shows felt different. It 
vMj a rebirth of the project.” 
■■s newly inspired passion 
is the fire that smolders and 
bursts forth over Sore’s 11 
raucous tracks. 

We chatted about the dif¬ 
ferences in Canadian versus 
American cannabis culture. 
Canada’s newly elected prime 
minister, Justin Trudeau, is 
highly in favor of legaliza¬ 
tion, recently mandating the 
country’s attorney general to 
pass marijuana measures in 
Parliament. There are even 
cannabis social clubs like the 
Hotbox Cafe, one of Katie and 
Liz’s favorite Toronto hangout 
spots. “It’s this weed cafe 
where everyone blazes,” Katie 
says. “Cops know it’s a weed 
cafe, but they like it because 
it’s contained. So they don’t 
fuck with it. You can smoke 
weed all over the place in 
Toronto and no one will fuck 
with you.” 



Good Canadian Manners 

During our wake-and-bake session, Ben and 
Jimmy did not partake, instead volunteering to 
be designated drivers so Katie and Liz could blaze 
to their hearts' content and still safely make their 
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36 Entertainment 


High Times August 2016 



MUSIC RECOMMENDATIONS 



Wussy 

Forever Sounds 
(Shake It) 


For the sonically expan- 
' sive Forever Sounds, Ohio 
rockers Wussy ditch the 
cleaner production of their 
previous albums to dive 
headlong into psychedelia 
and ‘90s shoegaze, wrapping 
songs in a wash of heavy, 
hazy noise. Songwriters 
Chuck Cleaver and Lisa 
Walker riff about the arcane 


and the occult as they swap 
vocals on tracks that veer 
from dreamily ethereal to 
raggedly rocking. The band 
never loses the solid Mid¬ 
western grounding that fills 
“Better Days” with heartland 
hopefulness, even while 
smothering tracks like “Side¬ 
walk Sale” in a Sonic Youth- 
like squall. Kirsten Ferguson 


Psychonautic 

Brooklyn trio Guerilla Toss venture 
into music of the cosmos. 

If you squint your eyes, you’ll glimpse it: Hover¬ 
ing above this warped wonderama of nuevo No 
Wave nirvana is the benignly divine guidance 
of the Grateful Dead. At first, you’d be hard- 
pressed to hear the influence—beyond the 
vague tickly feeling one gets from the trippy, 
Dead-style cover art. Sussing out that con¬ 
nection is one of the more fascinating things 
about this sonically schizophrenic full-length 
by Brooklyn noise-punk-dance iconoclasts 
Guerilla Toss. Like the Dead, these guys craft or 
stumble upon their every track to create, under 
the right circumstances, real brain-squashers 
of new-sound multiplicities that just might 
prompt the question “How did we get here?” 
or perhaps “Where are we headed?” Astound¬ 
ing sounds abound in the appropriately titled 
opener “Multibeast” and 
“Grass Shack,” rip-roaringly 
dancey demons drizzled 
with splintering shards of 
oblique electronics, arcane 
world-music samples, and 
FX-drenched whoops ’n’ hol¬ 
lers by vocalist/poet Kassie 
Carlson. Quite interesting 
how the title track’s itchy, 
seesawing guitar rip-chords 
and coiling-down-the- 
kitchen-sink synth swirls, 
like the near-hilariously energetic locomotive 
drumthump on “Perfume” and “Big Brick,” 
simultaneously enhance, twist and obliterate 
whatever Carlson’s on about lyrically, so that 
her in fact rather serious concerns about life’s 
pain and pleasure, mental illness and spiritual 
healing only seep into the careful listener upon 
the third or fourth hearing—which this densely 
packed sonic stewpot definitely warrants. The 
album’s superbly goofy B-52s-type dance-party 
cacophony boasts great confidence in its crafted 
chaos and its blatantly blurry vision of the dark 
stars looming just up ’round the bend. John Payne 



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Eraser Stargazer 
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Various Artists 

Brown Acid: The 
Second Trip 

(Riding Easy) 


On their second col- 
' lection of “heavy rock 
from the comedown era,” 
Riding Easy reteams with 
vinyl specialists Permanent 
Records to unearth 10 more 
obscure proto-metal, full-tilt 
boogie-rock and hard-glam 
cuts from the 1970s. Last 
year’s The First Trip had its 
moments, but the sequel is 



Cody and His Lost 
Planet Airmen 

Live In San 
Francisco 1971 

(Sundazed) 


, Cody and the boys were 
inarguably the first 
Yankee hippies to believably 
play hardcore honky-tonk 
country, western swing and 
rockabilly, and this never- 
released radio broadcast is 
their very first recording. 
Not only did they give their 
rock audiences a lesson 
in Americana, they were 


COMEDY RECOMMENDATIONS 



Wyatt Cenac 

Furry Dumb 
Fighter 

(A Special Thing) 


On his latest album, 
standup comic Wyatt 
Cenac takes his audience on 
an incisive and philosophi¬ 
cal journey in his signature 
languid drawl. The premises 
may haunt your dreams—in 
a good way—for days to 
come: From the magical New 
York City subway system 
(where rats ride humans like 


BOOKS RECOMMENDATIONS 



Biography of 

Psychedelic 

America 


Jesse Jarnow 

(Da Capo Press) 


Occasionally a scribe 
appears who nails in 
prose the experience of 
getting high. Tom Wolfe and 
Hunter Thompson were two; 
Jesse Jarnow is another. 

This half-century history of 
freak-flag-flying pops off the 
page through Jarnow’s fluid 
wordplay mastery. While 
focused on the Grateful 


better: From the Sabbathian 
riff ride of Ash’s “Midnight 
Witch” and Sweet Crystal’s 
organ-drenched “Warlords” 
to the cocaine groove of Iron 
Knowledge’s “Show Stopper” 
and the Jethro Tull stylings 
of Spiny Norman’s “Bell 
Park Loon”, this is a treasure 
trove for heavy ’70s aficiona¬ 
dos. J. Bennett 

a total-energy outfit that 
inspired plenty of ass-shakin’. 
Though Little Feat’s “Willin’” 
is often hailed as the ulti¬ 
mate stoner anthem of that 
era, Cody’s weed-it-and-weep 
ballad “Seeds and Stems 
(Again)” rivals it, while “Lost 
in the Ozone” is a celebration 
of the joys of liquid intoxica¬ 
tion. Michael Simmons 


dragons) and the Bible’s obvi¬ 
ous “bros before hos” code 
to the perils of the Confeder¬ 
ate flag, the Kardashians 
and idolizing Bill Cosby (at 
least until recently), Cenac 
unflinchingly addresses sen¬ 
sitive topics without pulling 
any punches, while having 
plenty of fun along the way. 
Katie Compa 


Dead family (Garcia, acid 
king Owsley, John Perry Bar- 
low), the author also profiles 
growers, chemists, dealers, 
musicians, artists, and advo¬ 
cates for legalization and 
consciousness expansion. 
Jarnow writes from inside 
the scene—an advantage 
that High Times readers will 
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Social Media for Cannaphiles 

Internet bigfoots like Facebook and Google aren’t always kind to 
friends of the herb Now a savvy young company is staking 
a claim to this neglected market. 



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nabis aficionados on social media” and 
notes that sites like Facebook and Ins- 
tagram are making a big mistake when 
they suspend weed-infused accounts. (In 
2010, Facebook banned advertising that 
promotes marijuana legalization—and, 
to date, neither Facebook nor Google 
allows ads for weed, even for Web 
surfers in pot-legal states.) “Luckily for 
smart penny stock investors,” Insider 
financial.com continues, “MassRoots is 
the prime beneficiary.” 

Facebook and Instagram aren’t the 
only ones harshing mellows. Dietrich 
recounts other obstacles that his com¬ 
pany has faced: “We’ve been kicked out 
of the App Store; we’ve had three bank 
accounts shut down; our Instagram page 
was taken down. They gave no reason 
other than we ‘violated community stan- 


“I took the money I would have spent on the first 
semester of college and launched this instead. 
Best decision I ever made.” 


S o you want to hook up digitally 
with other weed-lovers. Where do 
you go? 

The biggest social-media platforms 
(you know who they are) are not 100 
percent copacetic with cannabis users— 
and even if they were, do you really want 
a Facebook friend like Grandma “liking” 
your latest dab session? No, you do not. 

Into this market lacuna steps Mass- 
Roots, a Denver-based company that’s 
growing a community of pot aficionados 
who trade weed-inspired stories and 
pics; rant, find and rate dispensaries, 
and track legislative developments in 
pot-not-yet-friendly states—basically just 
like regular social media, but without the 
cat videos. 

“We think of it as a kind of Facebook 
for cannabis users,” says Isaac Dietrich, 
the co-founder and CEO of MassRoots. 

“A place where you connect with like- 
minded friends.” 

Dietrich is just 24, but he’s wise 
beyond his years. After high school, he 
considered college but ended up deciding 
on an even higher education: starting 
a social-media site specifically tailored 
for cannabis folk. “I took the money I 
would have spent on the first semester 


of college and launched this instead,” he 
says. “Best decision I ever made.” 

Dietrich found an eager customer 
base waiting for him. “There is so much 
demand for cannabis-related content 
that we sometimes have trouble keeping 
up,” he says, noting that the app crashed 
briefly last 4/20. “Those are good prob¬ 
lems to have.” 

MassRoots has what econ types call a 
“first-mover advantage”: As a pioneer in 
a new market, it has a competitive edge 
over latecomers. By planting its flag in 
the cannabis social-media space, it has 
established its brand and is securing 
customer loyalty. Since the app launched 
in July 2013, more than 750,000 users 
have joined MassRoots, and the com¬ 
pany looks to top one million users by 
4/20 this year. With this impressive 
growth comes new goals, such as a NAS¬ 
DAQ listing—something now well within 
its sights. 

Insiderfinancial.com has declared 


dards.’” (MassRoots’ Instagram account 
was revived within a month.) 

Meanwhile, old-school media have 
tended to treat MassRoots well—though 
even when they don’t, it’s not a problem. 
“Any media is good media,” enthuses 
Dietrich. “We always get more users, 
whether [coverage] is positive or not. 

We love controversial stuff because more 
people get interested. The media tend to 
glorify the industry, as if we’re just smok¬ 
ing weed all day, making tons of money. 
In reality we face more difficulties than 
so many other businesses. 

“Literally, I wake up every morning 
and wonder, ‘What’s going to go wrong 
today?”’ Dietrich adds. But he’s anything 
but pessimistic about either his career 
path or those who will follow. “The 
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Prices by the ounce 


All indices finished August above their previous month’s average 
with the exception of the Kind Index, which fell to a year-low 
average price of $365. The Mids Index experienced the biggest 
gain, closing the month $21 above its YTD average. Chemdog 
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TRANS HIGH MARKET QUOTATIONS 


STATE 

CITY 

STRAIN 

PRICE 

Alabama 

Birmingham 

Grand Daddy Purps 

$335 

Alaska 

Sterling 

Silver Haze 

320 

Arizona 

Phoenix 

Banana Kush 

350 

Arkansas 

El Dorado 

Tangerine Dream 

280 

California 

Los Angeles 

Headband 

330 

Colorado 

Boulder 

Tahoe OG 

335 

Connecticut 

Hartford 

East Coast Sour Diesel 

375 

Delaware 

Wilmington 

Master Kush 

360 

Florida 

Miami 

Platinum Girl Scout Cookies 

300 

Georgia 

Atlanta 

Sensi Star 

350 

Hawaii 

Maui 

Chemdog 

375 

Illinois 

Chicago 

Bubblegum 

380 

Indiana 

Indianapolis 

White Widow 

375 

Iowa 

Des Moines 

Blue Dream 

360 

Louisiana 

New Orleans 

Gorilla Glue #4 

325 

Maine 

Portland 

Sour Diesel 

310 

Maryland 

Baltimore 

Chemdog 

400 

Massachusetts 

Boston 

Star Dawg 

360 

Michigan 

Grand Rapids 

Jesus OG 

280 

Minnesota 

St. Paul 

Critical-i- 

360 

Mississippi 

Meridian 

JediKush 

250 

Montana 

Helena 

Blue Dream 

260 

Nevada 

Las Vegas 

Trainwreck 

375 

New Jersey 

Hoboken 

JillyBean 

360 

New York 

New York 

Strawberry Cough 

380 

North Carolina 

Raleigh 

Super Silver Haze 

365 

Ohio 

Kent 

Blue Dream 

350 

Oregon 

Portland 

Trainwreck 

200 

Pennsylvania 

Pittsburgh 

Guava Chem 

375 

Tennessee 

Nashville 

Commerical 

120 

Texas 

Fort Worth 

Girl Scout Cookies 

350 

Virginia 

Richmond 

Master Kush 

360 

Washington 

Seattle 

Tahoe OG 

300 

West Virginia 

Beckley 

Girl Scout Cookies 

350 

Wisconsin 

Madison 

Bruce Banner 

360 

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You Must Be This High To Rkle 

Ferris Wheel. Tilt-A-Whirl. The Zipper. Weed. There was definitely more than one way to get high 
at the 2016 U.S. Cannabis Cup 6 Carnival in San Bernardino, California. By Emily Cegielski 



E lection years are great for the 

marijuana legalization movement, 
and 2016 has promised to be a big 
one. Not only do we have numer¬ 
ous opportunities to elect sup¬ 
portive, or at least receptive, officials, we will 
also see many states voting on ballot initia¬ 
tives to legalize medical or recreational pot. 

Unfortunately, election years are not great 
for hosting a High Times event. After three 
successful U.S. Cannabis Cups in Colorado, 
we were excited to head back to the Den¬ 
ver Mart for our biggest 4/20 celebration yet, 
only to have our permit denied by the Adams 
County Commissioners—three of whom are 
up for re-election this year. Coincidence? 
Probably not. With only two months until the 
Cup, we scrambled to relocate, moving the 
festival to Pueblo County, but were eventu¬ 
ally forced to pull our permit request due to 
regulatory issues and timing concerns. 


Sometimes life just throws a whole lot of 
citrus at you. While, yes, we would go on to 
make a delicious medicated lemonade with 
all of the lemons that Colorado hurled at us 
(Nubloom was on site serving up refresh¬ 
ing Weedmonadel), it was actually a differ¬ 
ent fruit-oranges, specifically—that came to 
our rescue. 

Hot on the heels of our latest Cannabis 
Cup, we found ourselves returning to the 
National Orange Show (NOS) Events Center 
in sunny San Bernardino. Despite our prior 
two-weekend, medical event only months 
before, SoCal welcomed us back with open 
arms. The 2016 Colorado Cup would con- 
tinue-but with only the competition and 
a separate awards show taking place. No 
massive pot exhibition. No toking-friendly 
festival. At least not in Colorado... In San Ber¬ 
nardino, there was a different scene... Some¬ 
thing more like a carnival. 












High Times August 2016 


46 You Must Be This High to Ride 




“I think right 
now there is 
a re-recognition 
in this country 
that government 
is out of control.” 

- Rep. Dana Rohrbacher 


1) Cannastar OG from 

New Amsterdam Naturals grabbed 
second place for hybrid flowers. 

2) Not everyone was 
exhaling smoke! 

3) Congressman Dana Rohrbacher 
advocated for legalization. 

4) A communal blunt passed through 
the crowd awaiting The Game. 

5) The dudes from Pura Vida 
showcased an array of strains. 


For three days, thousands of attendees 
flooded the NOS Center for the ultimate pre- 
4/20 party and our first event of its kind in 
California-the 2016 U.S. Cannabis Cup & 
Carnival. 

The carnival theme was in full-swing 
from the big top entryway to the amuse¬ 
ment park rides scattered throughout the 
event site. Performers and acrobats from 
the Venardos Circus waited in the non-med¬ 
icating area to greet guests with extremely 
uplifting song-and-dance numbers. A creepy 
clown on a unicycle would occasionally pop 
up when you least expected him; the cos¬ 
tumed stilt walkers were less subtle. 

Of course, we were there to celebrate 
marijuana, and the pot did not disappoint. 
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High Times August 2016 



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What else was in abundance? Ass. Lots and 
lots of exposed asses. 

The best booth to see bare booties was the 
Mally Elite stage, one of many hosting give¬ 
aways, DJs, musical performances and more. 
Obviously, ME knew what it was doing, tak¬ 
ing home awards for Best Booth, Best Product 
and Best Glass (with CHR). 

Not everyone was a fan of all the scantily 
clad ladies-and there really were a ton milling 
around-but even those who disapproved had 
to admire their moxie; there’s no airbrushing, 
and everyone’s in high definition at a Canna¬ 
bis Cup. Believe it or not, with all of the see- 
through outfits and nonexistent shorts, we 
still hadn’t reached the apex of transparency. 
That would happen on Sunday afternoon 
with a surprise visit from Congressman Dana 
Rohrabacher. 

To the delight of attendees, California’s 
Republican representative and pot legaliza¬ 
tion advocate delivered a candid and sincere 
speech about marijuana to a seminar tent 
overflowing with spectators. 

“I think right now there is a re-recognition 
in this country that government is out of con¬ 
trol and that we’ve got to regain control of 
the government by the people of this coun¬ 
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“[Law enforcement has] a limited amount of money 
and for us to spend it on trying to prevent somebody 
from smoking a weed in their backyard is absolutely 
ridiculous and stupid and honest people shouldn’t 
have any question about stepping up and saying that 
is not something the federal government or the local 
government should be doing,” he continued. 

Rohrabacher went on to explain that the biparti¬ 
san Rohrabacher-Farr amendment (legislation which 
prevents the DEA from spending money to stop the 
implementation of state medical marijuana laws) was 
just the first step. The second step? Legalizing recre¬ 
ational use. 

“It’s our business, not the government’s business, 
what we consume,” Rohrabacher bellowed. “We’re 
gonna get our country back on track. It won’t hap¬ 
pen on its own. It’ll happen because all the people with 
common sense and decency and concern for each 
other as Americans, we will take control of our coun¬ 
try again.” 

... which brings us back to why election years are so 
important. The fight for legalization is far from over. 

It’s obvious-just look at pot arrest numbers, DEA raid 
reports and our own fight to hold the U.S. Cannabis 
Cup in the recreationally legal state of Colorado. So, 
make sure to vote. 

And if we learned one thing from this event, it’s this: 
The next time Adams County Commissioners vote 
on a High Times event permit, we might need to send 
in some pants-less ladies to help sway the majority 
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BEST INDICA CONCENTRATE 
1st Place Nameless OG Budder 
Chips by Nameless Genetics in 
collaboration with Gold Coast 
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Pie Live Resin Shatter by Loud- 
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3rd Place Emperor OG Kush by 
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Finest with The Finerside 
2nd Place Crown OG by Green- 
wolf with Crown Genetics 
3rd Place Louise by Phresh 
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1st Place High Tech by Mally 

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2nd Place Glass Art 


Attachment by Cloud V Electro 
3rd Place Papa Bear by Rodeo 
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3rd Place - Puffco 


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etative stage with the topping of cannabis 
plants. This technique goes by several 
different names, such as “pinching off,” 
“super-cropping” or “FIMing,” and each 


comes with its own unique method. Still, 
the goal is the same: to trigger the release 
or redistribution of a plant’s growth hor¬ 
mones—specifically auxins, the hormones 
responsible for growth and development 
in the branches, shoots, leaves and roots. 

Auxins are produced primarily in the 
plant’s buds, leaves and shoots. These 
hormones stimulate the growth of plant 
cells, especially near the tips of shoots 
and roots, where the auxin concentra¬ 
tions are highest. Auxins also accumulate 
near the tops of growing shoots, causing 
them to continue their advance upward. 

Auxins located in the main stem have 
the ability to slow growth in the sur¬ 
rounding shorter shoots. This phenom¬ 
enon is known as apical dominance, 
and it occurs when the concentration 


of auxins in the main shoot is closest to 
those surrounding branches. As the main 
shoot grows up and away, the shorter 
shoots will begin growing and elongat¬ 
ing once more. Apical dominance is the 
reason why topping a cannabis plant is 
so effective: When the dominant top or 
terminal shoot is cut or pinched off, its 
auxin concentration is redistributed to 
the lower, lateral shoots surrounding it. 
This causes them to grow more vigor¬ 
ously, while also helping to induce new 
growth in the form of additional top 
shoots that will eventually create many 
more top colas during flowering. 

Here’s a quick guide to a few of the 
more prominent and successful topping 
techniques that lead to more robust 
plants and increased yields. 
















56 Maximizing Summer Crops 


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Pruning Techniques 


TOPPING: The removal of the top terminal shoot by cutting or 
slicing. This is performed once around week two of vegeta¬ 
tive growth and then possibly again around week four (or just 
before flowering is triggered). 


THE FIM TECHNIQUE: Also know as “FIMing,” this technique 
incorporates a slight variation on the topping technique. Using 
small trimmer scissors, locate the top terminal shoot and, instead 
of cutting off the entire shoot, move down 80 percent from the top 
and make your cut, leaving 20 percent of the shoot still intact. The 
20 percent remaining will consist of trimmed new growth (baby 
leaves) just above the node and will look like a freshly mown lawn. 


PINCHING OFF: Basically the same technique as topping, only this one is 
performed using the thumb and index finger to literally pinch off the top 
shoot rather than using trimmers or pruning shears. 


SUPER-CROPPING: Used 
by Dutch growers for 
decades, super-cropping 
is the art of increasing 
plant growth without the 
removal of any plant parts. 
Instead, the plant is bruised 
(or physically altered) in 
order to trigger a similar 
response. In this scenario, 
a grower usually takes the 
main stem (or a vertical 
topside branch just off the 
main stem) and begins to 
“roll” it vigorously between 
the thumb and index finger. 
This will rotate the branch 
and cause it to pop, or blister, at the point of pressure. The branch will be 
injured and become weak, though you should avoid snapping it off alto¬ 
gether or causing it to fall limp. Instead, leave the branch at a 90-degree 
angle. When a branch growing vertically is bent and forced to remain 
horizontal, the interference in apical dominance will cause the shoots on 
the same axis to become stimulated and grow vertically. 

Super-cropping differs from the three previous methods insofar as 
this technique changes previously horizontal branches into vertical¬ 
growing top colas rather than inducing new shoot growth. This is a 
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Well-Timed Pruning 

Ever see a grower relentlessly pruning 
a plant and think, “That guy is taking 
off way too much!” Well, there can be 
a method to this madness that’s often 
overlooked. While too much pruning 
can be bad for a plant, most growers are 
surprised by how much can be pruned 
without any ill effects. The truth is, 
pruning invigorates growth, although 
pruning the right amount is both an art 
and a science. 

Experienced growers know that when 
pruning is used to reduce a plant’s size, 
the result is vigorous new growth. In late 
spring and early summer, outdoor grow¬ 
ers in Northern California routinely spend 
one hour pruning— per plant, every day. 
And while these plants are basically the 
size of trees, that’s still a lot of pruning for 
each plant. But the reward is worth it. 



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Good Pruning Strategy 

Whether you’re pruning in the 
spring or summer, there are 
a few simple techniques and 
objectives to bear in mind. Of 
course, there are the objectives 
already discussed: pruning 
shoot tips to interfere with 
apical dominance in order to 
encourage lateral branching; 
pruning to increase or invigorate 
growth during the vegetative 
phase; and pruning (and super¬ 
cropping) to train plants to grow 
a certain way in order to boost 
yields. Here are a couple more 
pruning strategies to consider, 
all of which are geared toward 
increasing plant yields: 

• Pruning for “crown thinning,” 
which aims to open up the top 
canopy of the plant for better 
light penetration. This is useful 
not only for large outdoor 
plants but also for indoor plants 
bunched together in a “sea of 
green” (SOG)-style grow. In this 
scenario, a grower will strategi¬ 
cally remove certain branches, 
such as those that are growing 
inward. To avoid stress, never 
remove more than 25 percent of 
the crown. 

• Conversely, “crown raising” 
is another pruning technique 
deployed by many advanced 
growers. This procedure 
involves removing the entire 
bottom third of the plant’s 
branches. This approach is also 
used by indoor and outdoor 
growers alike with the goal of 
redirecting all of the plant’s 
energy to the top colas and 
buds. Lower branches with 
small “popcorn” buds are 
energy suckers and don’t do 
much for the marketability of 
your buds after harvest. 

• In some cases, pruning may 
be done in order to increase 
flower size—which may not 
necessarily increase your yield 
overall. Still, some growers cut 
off some flowering branches 
at the first signs of budding in 
order to increase the size and 
potency of top colas. This is usu¬ 
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framework to provide support for fruit¬ 
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to cannabis cultivation, the trellis can 
be either vertical or horizontal, and it 
can be made from a variety of materials. 

Horizontal trellising is most com¬ 
monly seen in indoor gardens, and it 
often takes the form of plastic mesh net¬ 
ting. This netting is usually laid over the 
garden canopy, with the plants growing 
up through the mesh squares (which can 
range in size from 3 to 5 inches). This 
method of trellising is particularly effec¬ 
tive in SOG and ScrOG setups. Vertical 
or upright trellising is more often used 
in outdoor gardens, because outdoor 
plants are usually grown much taller and 
in individual plant sites. Even so, vertical 
trellising can be used in either indoor or 
outdoor grows to add support for plants, 
to train the direction of growth, and to 
increase yields. 


When trellising is used in con¬ 
junction with the pruning methods 
discussed earlier, the result can be 
increased yields of 10 to 20 percent—or 
more. In particular, when plants are 
topped or FIMed, the resulting new 
growth—in the form of new offshoots 
surrounding the severed terminal 
node—will benefit enormously from the 
support and separation provided by a 
net trellis system. As these new shoots 
develop and grow, indoor growers 
will pull them apart and up through 
the mesh netting. Not only does this 
provide support for what will become 
heavy top colas, but it also helps sepa¬ 
rate and “thin out” the crown of the 
plant for better light penetration to the 
branches below. 

Similarly, large outdoor plants ben¬ 
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stakes fastened together with rope 
or wire, or wooden or metal fencing 
used as an encompassing framework. 
Perhaps the most ingenious outdoor 
framework is the metal-wire rebar 
used in construction for concrete 
forms. When this rebar is rolled and 
fastened to create a cylinder effect, 
it can be placed around plants while 
they’re still in the vegetative stage so 
that they can grow upward and out¬ 
ward through the metal latticework. 

Additionally, as limbs grow and 
spread out, there is more airflow 
throughout the plant’s interior. Not 
only does this aid in respiration and 
photosynthesis, but it also helps 
prevent the moisture buildup that 
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By Dan Skye 

A t the start of the classic comedy 
Annie Hall , Woody Allen speaks 
directly to the camera: “There’s 
an old joke—um ... two elderly 
women are at a Catskill mountain 
resort,, and one of ’em says, ‘Boy, the food at this 
place is really terribleThe other one says, Teah, 
I know. And such small portions!’” 

Woody’s talking about life—that it’s full of 
pain and suffering, and yet it’s over way too 
soon. But the analogy could easily illustrate the 
oft-heard complaint among pot smokers: 

“This pot sucks!” says one. 

“Yeah, I know” agrees the other. “And I got 
shorted!” 

Sound familiar? The sad fact is that Ameri¬ 
cans who don’t live in states where legal can¬ 
nabis is available must rely on black-market 
sources to fulfill their needs. It’s not unusual for 
consumers to know next to nothing about the 
quality of their purchase—who grew it or how 
it was grown—much less the strain, potency or 
potential medical benefits. And, needless to say, 
the price is rarely negotiable. 

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68 The Solo Grow 


High Times August 2016 


Meet the Firestick Clique 

The Buffalo area of Western New York 
isn’t widely known as a cultivation hub. 
It’s better known as part of America’s 
Rust Belt, a region where manufactur¬ 
ing industries once flourished but, over 
the past 50 years, have suffered a nearly 
60 percent loss in jobs. Shuttered facto¬ 
ries are a common sight. 

In these parts, people are always 
on the lookout for alternative ways of 
making money—like the members of the 
Firestick Clique. For well over a decade, 
members of this secret society of home 
growers have exchanged knowledge 
and shared their genetics. They’ve even 
hosted their own cannabis competitions. 

Some of these growers have used 
the surrounding urban decay to their 
advantage in the summer months, 
planting guerrilla gardens where no one 
treads, near deserted railroad tracks 
or forgotten buildings. But most do 
their deeds indoors and have mastered 
the art of the solo grow. We asked the 
Firestick Clique to lay out the funda¬ 
mentals for getting started. High Times 
cultivation editor-at-large Nico Escon¬ 
dido weighs in as well to offer some 
additional tips. 




Where to Grow 

The bigger your grow, the bigger the 
risk. The Firestick Clique recommends 
grow tents. They’re inexpensive and 
quick to assemble—or <ie-assemble. 

If there’s ever a security breach, you 
can get your plants out of your house 
quick. Small grow tents are designed 
with vents for exhaust and have wide 
zipper doors that allow the grower 
easy access to the plants and ease the 
task of lighting adjustments. 

If you don’t choose a tent, a spare 
closet will work, but keep your 
operation small when you begin. Keep 
things simple at first. A closet can 
easily be made “light-tight” so the 
plants have no interruption in their 
dark cycle. 

How Many Plants? 

The size of the planting container or 
grow pot you choose will influence the 
size of the plants you grow. Containers 
come in a variety of sizes. Those that 
provide breathability, like fabric pots, 
are great. Some feature drainage holes 
and saucers to catch the run-off. Obvi¬ 
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Start With SoU 

Soil is much more forgiving if you make a 
mistake. We like a perlite mix: two parts 
perlite mixed with one part Happy Frog 
potting soil and one part worm castings. 
Some of us use different nutrients or a 
couple of additives that the others don’t. 
But we all pretty much use Advanced 
Nutrients products. 

One of our growers relies on organic, 
veganic nutrients when his plants are in 
veg. But once they’re in bloom, he switches 
to Connoisseur A & B from the Advanced 
Nutrients line. Too much fertilizer’s no 
good: Get a chart from your local grow 
store—wherever you buy your nutrients, 
for whatever line—and follow that regi¬ 
men. Don’t overdo it. Sometimes, use even 
a little bit less than what’s recommended. 

Nico Escondido weighs in here: “A small 
bag of organic potting soil will usually do 
the trick just fine. Peat, coco or sphagnum- 
based mediums are also excellent choices. 
Choose an airy medium that will allow air 
to penetrate the root zone. Roots breathe 
in oxygen, while the plant aboveground 
breathes in C0 2 . Some mediums—espe¬ 
cially organic soils—may come with mild 
organic nutrients like guano or sea kelp 
already mixed in. This will lessen the 
amount of nutrients you’ll need to give 
your plants, and they may not require any 
feedings at all until you begin flowering.” 

Nico recommends using organic nutri¬ 
ents whenever possible and steering clear of 
salt-heavy synthetics like Miracle Gro and 
other artificial nutes. “They’ll cause more 
problems than they’re worth,” he warns. 

Watering 

Don’t overwater your plants! With soil, 
every other day should be sufficient, unless 
it’s real hot. Bigger plants need more 
water; in that case, you’ll probably be 
watering every day. A good rule of thumb 
is to water the plants when the top of the 
soil or growing medium begins to feel 
dry. Make sure the water can drain freely 
from the bottom of the pot. Your grow 
pots should feature drainage holes on the 
bottom or provide some kind of escape 
route for the water. The perlite in your soil 
mix will loosen the soil and allow water to 
drain through more easily. 

If your garden is in a closet, use a 
staple-gun to cover the floor with thick 
plastic or Mylar to prevent leakage or pud¬ 
dling. Placing trays under your pots is a 
good idea, too. Rubber floor mats beneath 
the plastic are extra insurance. They can 
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Lights 

The length of the dark cycle is very impor¬ 
tant for cannabis plants. A timer switch 
will ensure a regular cycle. Depending 
on the size of your grow space and plant 
count, various wattages are available 
for your lights: 400, 600 or 1,000 watts. 
(High-pressure sodium lights are ideal.) 
Remember that the less intense the light, 
the less the plant will develop. If the light 
provided during the day is too weak, a 
plant will stretch wildly and not develop 
well enough for a harvest. Your lights 
should be as close as possible to the plants 
without burning them. As for the dis¬ 
tance, many growers rely on this method: 
Put your hand under the grow light. If it’s 
too hot for your hand, it’s probably too 
hot for the plants. Raise the lights until 
your hand feels more comfortable. 

Once your plants have 
developed to the point 
where they can produce 
enough flowers for a 
decent harvest, it’s time 
to regulate the light cycle. 

Inducing the Flowering Stage 

A question often asked by new growers 
is: “Why not just let the plant flower 
immediately and harvest some nice buds 
and get to the smoking part?” 

Nico responds: “You could do that— 
but if a plant flowers too early, there 
won’t be much harvest to be had. Ideally, 
a pot plant needs to grow, or ‘vegetate,’ 
for a few weeks before flowering. Oth¬ 
erwise, the harvest will be extremely 
disappointing.” 

When the plants are in veg, you can 
use weaker lighting than you use in the 
flowering area, and watching for light 
leaks isn’t as important since a dark 
period isn’t required. However, once 
your plants have developed to the point 
where they can produce enough flowers 
for a decent harvest, it’s time to regulate 
the light cycle—12 hours on and 12 hours 
off each day—because the 12-hour dark 
period induces flowering. Also, during 
the 12-hour photoperiod, the plant needs 
the strongest light possible to produce 
the energy needed to create buds. 

Also, it’s extremely important during 
the dark period that no light enters 
the grow space. Light leaks can disrupt 
flowering and stress or confuse the plant, 
causing it to become a hermaphrodite 
(creating seeded flowers) or severely 
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Air Flow 

Indoor growers need to remember that 
plants evolved outdoors in nature for 
millions of years, and bringing them 
indoors these past 40 years to cultivate is 
still relatively unnatural for them. Bring¬ 
ing fresh air into the garden space helps 
prevent molds and bacteria from forming 
in stagnant air and water. It also helps 
larger growrooms stabilize humidity and 
temperature by preventing heat pockets 
from forming under intense lighting. 

However, the downside is that if the 
intake air isn’t properly filtered, growers 
may also be introducing new bacteria 
strains or mold spores into their gardens. 
It can be quite the paradox. This is why 
it’s always best to use filters on both the 
intake and exhaust ports within your 
garden. Activated-charcoal filters will 
scrub the air well, and if you can add the 
UV-light option to your system, this will 
help ensure that no pathogens make it 
into your grow space. Also, remember to 
bring cool, fresh air in at the floor and to 
exhaust hotter air near the ceiling. 

The next thing you’ll need is an 
extraction system with an activated-car¬ 
bon filter. Cannabis plants need carbon 
dioxide to grow, and they get this C0 9 
from the air. If you fail to provide your 
growing area with fresh air, the plants 
will deplete all of the available C0 9 . As 
a result, growth will slow down and 


the plants will become less healthy. An 
extraction system sucks the C0 9 -depleted 
air outside, which automatically brings 
C0 2 -rich air in. The system also removes 
the odors that are typically released dur¬ 
ing the flowering stage. 

An activated-carbon filter is a large 
tube filled with carbon. The carbon 
absorbs the chemicals responsible for the 
well-known odors associated with can¬ 
nabis growing and neutralizes them. Nico 
recommends replacing the filters every 
year. 

For a small garden, Nico recommends 
considering C0 9 Boost Buckets: They’re 
very inexpensive and can bump the C0 9 
in small gardens up a few hundred ppm 
(parts per million). The buckets are 
organic as well and an excellent option 
for home growers. Barring that, a small 
C0 2 tank and timed regulator will work, 
but this option is more expensive to set 
up and isn’t always worth it for a small 
home garden. 

Remember, using C0 2 in gardens that 
are well ventilated requires added atten¬ 
tion to your atmospheric controls. Grow¬ 
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systems shut down temporarily so as not 
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Genetics 

Your yield will depend on the genetics you 
choose and whether you’re starting your 
garden from seed or clone. We always 
seems to get a better yield with seeds. 
Shoot for an ounce a plant: That’s realistic, 
unless you’re growing a heavily sativa- 
dominant strain. Still, a low yield doesn’t 
matter to a lot of people—they’re looking 
for a good head stash, and so they’re more 
concerned with quality rather than quan¬ 
tity. In a small space, you obviously can’t 
grow something that grows real tall and 
stretchy. Probably a short, stocky indica or 
a 60/40 hybrid is your best bet. 

Cleanliness 

After every harvest, scrub your pots out 
well. Scrub everything down—walls and 
surface areas included. You want to keep 
your chances of disease and pest infesta¬ 
tion low. A mild bleach solution should do 
it. Also, always keep your pets out of the 
garden. Even if your space is ridiculously 
small, you can still harvest a good sup¬ 
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Eighteen months'after High Times staged its last 
Cannabis Cup in Amsterdam, we ask: How legal is 
Dutch weed really? By Graham Dockery 


/jfy . he working day of a coffeeshop manager in Amsterdam is a hectic one. In addition to 

serving the steady stream of customers who visit his shop. Mo has to meet with suppliers 
and drive back and forth across the city, transporting his wares from his stash house to 
his place of business. 

Mo’s shop. Happy Days, is a small one in the south of Amsterdam. Coffeeshops are free to 
f operate here, so long as they refrain from advertising, causing a “nuisance ” selling hard drugs or 
y* large amounts of pot, and selling cannabis to minors. 

However, all of the weed that Mo does sell is illegally sourced. “I meet [the dealer] somewhere 
f quiet, do the deal and then stash the weed in a different location,” he says. This is a necessary 

. r - precaution, since the coffeeshops can have no more than 500 grams on their premises at any one 

time—and the police make sure this rule is obeyed with random inspections. 

“Every coffeeshop owner is a criminal” Mo tells me. “The current laws mean that I have to 
drive across the city transporting the weed and hash with no license to do so. It’s impossible to 
work normally this way, and Tm more scared of the police than the dealers I buy from” 

But in the Netherlands at present, there’s no alternative to sourcing cannabis illegally While 
Dutch policy allows the coffeeshops to sell pot, cultivation remains illegal. "I’d like to see things 
change—a lot” says Mo. "It’s not easy to run a company this way.” 


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Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell 

Much of the Netherlands’ cannabis comes 
from the southern province of Brabant, 
where illegal growers—many of them 
working for organized crime—produce an 
estimated 1 billion euros’ worth annually. 

As well as yielding some 340 tons of 
cannabis each year, the open farmland of 
Brabant is home to much of the country’s 
methamphetamine and ecstasy produc¬ 
tion. Last year, the police shut down 14 
labs and 30 storage points. 

For the better part of two decades, 

Dutch law enforcement has maintained 
a “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy regarding 
where the coffeeshops source their can¬ 
nabis. Large-scale grow ops are most defi¬ 
nitely illegal, but the police usually won’t 
press a coffeeshop owner to reveal his or 
her suppliers. Growers, however, will usu¬ 
ally be prosecuted to the full extent of the 
law if they get caught. 

“The current system, in which you can 
sell cannabis but not grow it, is unsus¬ 
tainable,” declared Magda Berndsen, a 
member of the Dutch Parliament, last 
year. “It ensures high health risks, costs 
too much police capacity and is a threat to 
public safety.” 

Heads in the Sand 

Many people here think the government 
isn’t doing enough to resolve this dilemma. 
Berndsen, a member of the progressive 
political party known as Democraten 66 
(D66 for short), says: “Local administra¬ 
tors have called on the government and 
Parliament to introduce a national system 
of certified and regulated hemp. But the 
government doesn’t listen to the mayors 
and does nothing to solve local problems.” 

In fact, 41 municipalities have endorsed 
a manifesto calling for cannabis cultivation 
to be legalized and regulated, and 25 have 
applied to the Dutch minister of justice for 
permission to experiment with legal culti¬ 
vation and supply. To date, the government 
hasn’t approved a single one of these appli¬ 
cations. But in a poll taken last year, 70 
percent of the Dutch people surveyed sup¬ 
ported legalizing cannabis cultivation, and 
only 5 percent thought that cracking down 
on growers should be a police priority. 

Berndsen estimates that legalizing and 
regulating the supply side of the cannabis 
industry could net the Dutch government 
500 million euros annually: 200 million in 
savings from the police and courts system, 
and 300 million from a tax on legal weed. 
One need only look to Colorado for an 
example: In 2015 alone, the state collected 
nearly $100 million from its marijuana 
sales tax, licenses and fees. 



Legalizing and regu¬ 
lating the supply side 
otthe Dutch cannabis 
industry could net the 
go&rnment 500 mil¬ 
lion euros annually. 


Local Knowledge 

Of course, Colorado’s marijuana policy differs sharply from that of the United 
States. The US government is just beginning to shake off the hangover of its failed 
War on Drugs. In the Netherlands, local governments and judiciaries have worked 
within the country’s ambiguous federal laws to try and shape drug policy to meet 
the unique needs of their areas. For example, when the government proposed 
implementing a “weed pass” in 2011—which would have allowed only registered 
Dutch smokers to patronize the coffeeshops—it was blasted by the mayors of the 
Netherlands’ four largest cities: Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague and Utrecht. 

The proposal was shelved by the coalition government in 2012, but the “weed 
pass” was intended to regulate only the “front door” of the nation’s coffeeshops, 
whose supply was still being provided by illegal growers coming in through the 
back. However, in other encouraging news, Dutch judges are becoming more flex¬ 
ible in their application of the country’s cannabis laws. 














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Enter the Altruists 

Needless to say, not every cultivator in the Netherlands has ties to organized crime: 
Some supply local coffeeshops offer high-quality cannabis, grown organically and 
without stolen electricity or connections to criminal gangs. These people have been 
dubbed “altruistic growers.” 

In 2014, a middle-age couple in Groningen province were pardoned by a district 
judge, who recognized that the couple had been running an illegal pot plantation 
but were altruistic growers who had acted with a high regard for public safety and 
the health of consumers. (Last year, public prosecutors appealed that ruling, and the 
couple received a three-month suspended jail sentence.) 

“These were people who decided a long time ago that Dutch cannabis policy was 
untenable in its current state,” says Sidney Smeets, the couple’s lawyer. “They grew in 
a very respectful way—all organic and with no pesticides. They only sold to licensed 
coffeeshops and paid their taxes. 

“We had to argue vehemently for the pardon, but the judge followed our argu¬ 
ment,” Smeets adds. “We’ve always argued that the lack of courage in Dutch politics 
to provide fitting regulation... shouldn’t be something that normal Dutch citizens get 
punished for.” 

In another high-profile case last year, cannabis activist and altruistic grower Doede 


de Jong was found guilty of large-scale 
cultivation but was pardoned on appeal. 
The court recognized, as it had in the case 
of the Groningen couple, that de Jong 
provided a safe and honest alternative to 
the cannabis being grown by organized 
criminal groups. 

“If politicians won’t make adequate 
laws, then judges shouldn’t convict 
people based on inadequate laws,” 

Smeets asserts. “But some judges are 
more lenient than others.” 


D66 has been pushing 
to reform the Netherlands' 
cannabis policy for years, 
while Justice Minister 
Ivo Opstelten has consis¬ 
tently refused to sanction 
any form of legalized and 
regulated pot. 


Where to Go From Here? 

The Cannabis College, in the middle 
of Amsterdam’s Red-Light District, is a 
tourist attraction and information center. 
There, staff member Tam provides a brief 
history of Dutch drug policy to curi¬ 
ous visitors and makes his case against 
prohibition, all while offering hits from 
his vaporizer. 

“Policy should be developed based on 
real-life experience—but at the moment, 
that’s not happening,” Tam says. “I 
believe that if there’s an unjust law, you 
have an obligation to break it.” 

Last year, the D66 party brought draft 
legislation to Parliament seeking to 
exempt pot growers from current drug 
laws—a small step toward legalization. 
D66 has been pushing to reform the 
Netherlands’ cannabis policy for years, 
while Justice Minister Ivo Opstelten has 
consistently refused to sanction any form 
of legalized and regulated pot. 

Until that changes, Mo will still have 
to source his weed from illegal cultiva¬ 
tors; the altruistic growers will still need 
sharp lawyers and sympathetic judges to 
stay out of prison; and Tam will still be 
preaching about breaking unjust laws. 

And as other countries, including the 
United States, Mexico, Chile and Uruguay, 
liberalize their own cannabis laws, the 
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How Dylan Turned On the Beatles 

In his new book How to Smoke Pot (Properly), marijuana journalist David Bienenstock provides a valuable 
“headiquette” lesson outlining the dos and don’ts of getting someone high for the first time. In the following 
excerpt Bienenstock examines how some of the 20th century’s most influential artists first got stoned. 


E ven the great and exalted Bob 
Marley once smoked ganja 
for the first time. And he 
probably asked a bunch of 
dumb questions and coughed 
too much throughout. So if you’re ever 
called upon to help guide an uninitiated 
friend or relative into the wonderful 
world of herbal delights, you must strive 
to remain exceedingly patient, kind and 
accommodating throughout the pro¬ 
ceedings—no matter what. Remember: 
“Doob unto others.” Also, make sure 
your friend’s potentially auspicious first 
puff takes place in a comfortable, safe, 
familiar setting, ideally among a small 
group of close friends. And don’t ever let 
things get overly uptight or, conversely, 
totally freaked-out—not for the initiate, 
g or for you. 

| After all, getting someone high for the 
1 first time is both a great privilege and 


a serious responsibility, not to mention 
an excellent opportunity to recall the 
heady feeling of your own early days in 
the herb game. So rather than coming 
on as some kind of guru or guide, just 
relax, let nature run its course, and try to 
recapture a bit of your own “beginner’s 
mind” when it comes to marijuana. If 
you can achieve that exalted plane, you 
just might end up having a transcendent 
journey of your own. 

“It’s my experience that to smoke 
marijuana for the first time is to explore 
the limits of hilarity, only to find that 
there are no limits,” famed music 
journalist A1 Aronowitz once noted—an 
observation eerily reminiscent of my own 
first time behind a bowling alley. “You 
laugh so hard that you want to laugh 
that hard again, so you smoke marijuana 
again. And again and again and again 
and again. I’m told that few ever really 


succeed in laughing that hard a second 
time, but I did. The two biggest laughs 
of my life were the first time I smoked 
marijuana and the first time the Beatles 
smoked it.” 

Aronowitz didn’t “turn on” the Beatles 
(who later used “let’s go have a laugh” 
as their private code for getting high) 
so much as he introduced them to Bob 
Dylan, who gladly did the honors. The 
deal went down on August 28,1964, at 
New York City’s swanky Delmonico Hotel. 
Upon arrival, Dylan mistakenly believed 
the Beatles (whom he was meeting for the 
first time) already smoked grass, based on 
a misheard lyric in “I Want to Hold Your 
Hand”—leaving John Lennon to bashfully 
point out that the lads from Liverpool 
were actually singing “I can’t hide,” not “I 
get high,” on the chorus. 

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94 Hoe Dylan Turned on The Beatles 


High Times August 2016 


it starred some of the 
20th century’s most 
influential and enduring 
artists at the very outset 
of their storied careers. 
According to Aronow- 
itz’s lengthy first-person 
account of the encounter 
in his book Bob Dylan 
and the Beatles : 

The Beatles wanted to 
know how the marijuana 
would make them feel, 
and we told them it would 
make them feel good. I 
still hadn’t learned how 
to roll a joint in those 
days, so when the Beatles 
agreed, to try some, I 
asked Dylan to roll the 
first joint. Bob wasn’t 
much of a roller either, 
and a lot of the grass fell 
into the big bowl of fruit 
on the room-service table. 



Dylan first offered the 
joint to Lennon, but the 
group’s unofficial leader 
immediately handed it 
to Ringo, demanding 
the drummer serve as 
the other Beatles’ “royal 
taster”—ostensibly to 
make sure the drug 
didn’t prove poisonous or 
provoke insanity before 
the rest committed to 
trying it. So Ringo started 
inhaling. At which point 
the first Beatle to get high immediately 
(though unwittingly) committed one of 
the very few major pot faux pas we out¬ 
lined earlier, as Aronowitz explains: 

As Ringo kept taking hits, Bob and I 
waited for him to pass the joint to John, 
who was sitting right next to Ringo. 

But the Beatles were unacquainted with 
the rituals of pot smoking. Pot smokers 
share joints because it’s precious stuff. 

It’s illegal, expensive and not easy to 
get. Pot smokers don’t waste any smoke 
letting the joint burn idly like a cigarette 
.... I neglected to instruct Ringo about 
passing the joint, and it was obvious that 
he was going to hold onto it as if he were 
smoking a cigarette filled with tobacco. I 
didn’t want to risk the possibility that the 
Beatles might recoil from the idea of pass¬ 
ing a joint from lips to lips like a bottle 
shared by winos on a street corner. 


Dylan first offered the joint to 
Lennon, but the group’s unofficial 
leader immediately handed it to Ringo, 
demanding the drummer serve as 
the other Beatles’ “royal taster” 


A delicate moment indeed, which 
Aronowitz ably resolved by asking Dylan’s 
rolling-adept road manager to quickly 
produce a few more joints, until every¬ 
body had one of their own. Then, since 
Ringo had gotten a head start on get¬ 
ting high, he started to feel the effects 
first, and unleashed a ripple of laughter 
that quickly reverberated throughout 
the room. 

Soon, Ringo got the giggles. In no time 
at all, he was laughing hysterically. His 
laughing looked so funny that the rest of 
us started laughing hysterically .... We 
kept laughing at one another’s laughter 
until every one of us had been laughed 
at. There also came a certain point when 
Paul realized he was really thinking 
for the first time in his life, and he also 
realized that this was a great occasion. 
He told [Beatles road manager] Mai 


Unfortunately, more 
than 50 years later, 
that historic document 
either remains in pri¬ 
vate hands or has been 
lost to history forever. 
But what we do know is 
that shortly after their 
fateful encounter with 
Bob Dylan, the Beatles 
would start to rapidly 
transform their music 
from the teenybopper 
bubblegum pop sound 
that made them global 
sensations into the more 
experimental, expansive, 
psychedelic explora¬ 
tions that kick-started 
the social and political 
upheaval of the ’60s and 
helped usher marijuana 
into the mainstream. 

All because A1 Aronow¬ 
itz made every effort 
imaginable to ensure 
that the Fab Four’s first 
time getting high went 
smoothly, despite a lot 
of awkward tension in 
the room as the world’s 
biggest music stars 
took great pains to 
show each other proper 
deference. 

“Allen Ginsberg would 
afterwards ask me if 
this initial meeting between Bob and the 
Beatles was demure ,” Aronowitz wrote, 
“and that is exactly the right word for 
it.” At least until things broke out into a 
spontaneous, all-encompassing five-way 
laughing fit. 

Ginsberg, the famed Beat poet, 
author of Howl and running buddy of 
Jack Kerouac, by the way, also put great 
stock in the personal insights gained the 
first time he got high—as he much later 
explained to Larry “Ratso” Sloman in his 
1998 book Reefer Madness : 

When I smoked grass [the first time] I 
suddenly realized how amazing it was 
that on the evidence of my own senses, 
which I did not doubt, here was a very 
mild stimulator of perception that led 
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96 Hoe Dylan Turned on The Beatles 

and tastes. And here was this great big 
government plot to suppress it and make 
it seem as if it were something diabolic, 
satanic, full of hatred and fiendishness 
and madness ....It was the very first 
time I ever had solid evidence in my 
own body that there was a difference 
between reality as I saw it myself and 
reality as it was described off daily by 
the state, the government, the police and 
the media. From then on I realized that 
marijuana was going to be an enormous 
political catalyst, because anybody who 
got high would immediately see through 
the official hallucination that had been 
laid down and would begin questioning, 
“What is this war? What is the military 
budget?” 

That powerful realization led Ginsberg 
to co-found America’s first pro-marijuana 
lobbying and activism organization and 
become a lifelong advocate not just for 
cannabis liberation, but for the demise 
of repressive regimes around the world. 
He also conspired with author Nor¬ 
man Mailer to hijack a live episode of a 
national television talk show and use it 
as a platform for America’s first substan¬ 
tial, fact-based discussion of marijuana in 
a public forum since the herb was made 



Author Norman 
Mailer found that, 
after smoking pot, “I 
became real to myself 
for the first time.” 


federally illegal in thel930s. 

Mailer, though less enthusiastic than 
Ginsberg, agreed to the plan in honor 
of his own reverence for the herb. In a 
Paris Review interview, the controversial, 
iconoclastic novelist once claimed that 
his lifelong habit of intense self-analysis 
“started with marijuana because I found 
that, smoking marijuana, I became real 
to myself for the first time.” He later 
described to High Times a more sensual 
herbal epiphany that struck him the very 
first time he got high: 


I was out in the car listening to the 
radio. Some jazz came on. I’d. been 
listening to jazz for years, but it had 
never meant all that much to me. Now, 
with the powers pot offered, simple 
things became complex; complex 
things clarified themselves. These 
musicians were offering the inner 
content of their experiences to me. 

So, to recap: When the Beatles tried 
pot for the first time, they meta¬ 
morphosed from a hard-drinking, 
pill-popping, commercially oriented 
boy band into harbingers of a com¬ 
ing peacenik psychedelic revolution; 
when Allen Ginsberg got high, he 
started questioning authority and 
exploring the illegitimacy of the 
government; and Norman Mailer’s 
first dance with Mary Jane offered 
powerful insights into himself that, 
somewhat paradoxically, also opened 
him up to an empathic understand¬ 
ing of another culture’s art and 
experience. 

No wonder the powers that be are 
afraid of this herb! ^ 

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The High Times Interview 99 



W iz Khalifa is flying 

HIGH, AND HE’S ONLY 
GETTING HIGHER. EAR¬ 
LIER THIS YEAR, THE 

28 -year-old hip-hop 

MUSICIAN RELEASED HIS SIXTH ALBUM, 

Khalifa, a winning combination of sto¬ 
rytelling, SLICK TALK, AND ODES TO THE 
PLENTIFUL JOYS OF MARIJUANA, LAID OVER 
A LUSH BED OF STADIUM-SIZED BEATS. 

Khalifa, who hails from Pittsburgh, 

OCCUPIES AN IMPORTANT PLACE IN HIP-HOP. 

With his legion of fans and his end¬ 
less PARADE OF HIT SINGLES, HE’S ONE OF 
THE GENRE’S MOST VISIBLE FIGURES, BUT HE 
ALSO TAK E S CARE TO MAINTAIN TIES WITH 
ITS UNDERGROUND AND TO SERVE AS AN 
AMBASSADOR FOR MANY OF RAP’S DEEPLY 
HELD TRADITIONS. He’s RECORDED TRACKS 
WITH LEGENDS LIKE EASY Mo BEE, MAX B 

and Juicy J—who is signed to Khalifa’s 
Taylor Gang label—and these songs 

OFTEN SERVE AS A YOUNG FAN’S INTRODUC¬ 
TION TO SUCH VITAL ARTISTS. 

Meanwhile, Khalifa crafts albums 

AND MIXTAPES THAT MINE A VARIETY OF 
SONIC TERRITORIES, FROM TRAP (HIS ROLL¬ 
ING Papers series) to smooth weed-rap 

(HIS BREAKOUT KUSH & ORANGE JUICE) TO 
THE POP APPEAL OF HIS LATER WORK. He’S 
THE PERFECT GATEWAY DRUG FOR SOMEONE 
JUST GETTING INTO THE GENRE, AND IT’S A 
ROLE THAT HE TAKES SERIOUSLY. 

Always an ardent supporter of pot, 
Khalifa is now dipping his toes into 

THE BOOMING LEGAL-WEED INDUSTRY WITH 
THE LAUNCH OF KHALIFA KUSH, HIS OWN 
INDICA STRAIN, WHICH WlZ CLAIMS WILL 
KNOCK THE SOCKS OFF EVEN THE MOST 
ARDENT OF STONERS. 

We kicked it with Wiz in Los Ange¬ 
les BEFORE HE WAS SET TO JET OFF TO 

France, discussing music, marijuana, 

POLITICS AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN. 



Wiz gets elevated. 



















































100 The High Times Interview 


High Times August JS. >16 



How much weed are you smok¬ 
ing these days? 

I smoke pot all day. I wake 
up and get high. But I’m more 
like an on-the-low stoner now. 
I like to get high and be high 
when I’m places, as opposed 
to just smoking everywhere 
like I used to. I prefer indi¬ 
ces —they help me out the 
most. Some people say they 
slow you down, but they pick 
me up. 

Does marijuana help you 
creatively? 

Weed just kind of helps me 
slow things down and think 
about them a little more. 
When I’m creative, I can be 
thinking really fast; the ideas 
just shoot all over the place. 
But if I’m stoned, I use my 
imagination to just hold onto 
that. That’s the main thing. 

When did you first start 
smoking? 

I started smoking with my 
homies. I was just in the stu¬ 
dio chilling. I really didn’t get 
high before that, and then one 
day it was just like, you know, 
get high and write a rap. 

Who were some early favorite 
artists to smoke to? 

Anything Three 6 Maha, 
Project Pat, Bone Thugs-N- 
Harmony. As I got older, I 
started to smoke to old-school 
music. I used to smoke to trap 
shit—like really super-hood 
music. 

Where do you like to smoke? 

I usually smoke in the stu¬ 
dio, like in the outside room 
or something like that, or 
in the lab while I’m record¬ 
ing. I’m just walking around 
smoking everywhere. At least 
I could if I wanted to—it’s just 
that I don’t really feel like it 
anymore. 

As somebody who’s seen a lot 
of different parts of the world, 
how do you feel the perception 
of weed differs in various parts 
of America, or even Canada or 
Mexico? 

People are still scared of 


weed. They don’t really under¬ 
stand it, or how it works or 
why it should be legalized. So 
when you see somebody who’s 
free and open about it, it’s not 
really as accepted as people 
think it is. 

Do you feel a responsibility to 
be open about it as a way of 
changing public perception? 

I mean, I don’t really feel 
a responsibility to do it— 
it’s just what I do. I’m really 
good at showing the upside 
of things, being that I smoke 
weed and I’m functioning. It 
kind of gives it a better face, 
just that right there. And then 
I can speak to people and say 
things that can change their 
minds as well. But just off of 
looking at me or smelling me, 
you’re probably going to get 
freaked out. 

What role does marijuana play 
in your creative relationships? 

It’s how we bond! It’s like 
the first thing we do. It’s like, 
“Hey, what’s up?”—then I 
shove a jay in your mouth. I 
always have the best weed, 
so when I see my boys, I just 


give them some of my bomb- 
ass weed. 

Weed is also how you linked up 
with Berner, the legendary Bay 
Area marijuana entrepreneur 
and rapper who’s now on your 
label. 

Yeah! I was on tour in the 
Bay, and I knew Mistah F.A.B. 
from the internet. He’s a Bay 
Area rapper, and I just ran¬ 
domly called him and was 
like, “Yo, I need some weed. 
I’m in the Bay. I know there’s 
some bomb-ass shit out here.” 
He was like, “Go see my man 
Berner. He’s in the hood, but 
it’ll be straight.” That’s how I 
met Berner, man. We’ve been 
brothers ever since. 

You really seem like a student 
of hip-hop. You’ve signed 
regional legends like Berner, Ty 
Dolla $ign from Los Angeles, 
and Juicy J (of Three 6 Mafia) 
from Memphis. 

I just got to go off of my 
personal taste. I study the 
game; I study music. I also 
come from a place that’s 
like—it’s hood in Pittsburgh, 
so my general perception is 


“People are still scared 
of weed. They don’t 
really understand it, 
or how it works or 
why it should be 
legalized.” 

modeled on how hood niggas 
think. We’re a tough crowd, 
but if we fuck with you, we’re 
going to ride for you. So when 
I’ve got the chance to change 
people’s perception of these 
artists, I jump at it. Juicy J 
is a genius, so he needs to 
be seen in that light. Berner 
is the ultimate hustler, and 
he’s great at what he does; he 
needs to be seen in that light. 
Ty is an awesome writer and a 
superstar in the making, so he 
needs to be seen in that light. 

Speaking of Pittsburgh, one of 
my favorite songs oft Khalifa is 
“Cowboy,” which touches on 
the violence there. It derails the 
typical narrative of the young 
hustler by having its main 
character murdered at the end. 
It’s not a morality tale-it just 
feels real. 

“Cowboy” is a cool song 
because it describes Pitts¬ 
burgh perfectly. A lot of peo¬ 
ple don’t know that that’s 
where I come from. I don’t 
talk about it much. But the 
violence there is crazy, and it’s 
just between young black peo¬ 
ple. People have a slim chance 
of making it out of the hood 
there. Pittsburgh is really 
small, so the violence hits 
home with me a lot. I lost my 
20-year-old uncle two years 
ago. He got shot in the back 
of his head. 

Oh my God. 

For no reason. And this 
shit, it just keeps happening. 
It’s always young black kids. 
So me rapping about that, 
and the song having a violent 
twist to it, it wasn’t me try¬ 
ing to be tough or say, “Yo, 

I’m from the hood”—it’s what 
really happens. That’s what 
motherfuckers, when they 
hear it, they know I’m really 
talking about where I’m from. 












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“The music-like the groove and the 
vibe-is usually a culmination of me 
trying something new... If people are 
doing one thing, I’m trying to figure 
out something totally different.” 


102 The High Times Interview 

I think that’s the power of 
hip-hop, in a way: It gives 
you the opportunity to tell 
stories that everyone else is 
ignoring. 

Yeah, exactly. 

I feel like at this point in 
your career, you’re a young 
OG. You’ve been incredibly 
successful since you were 
a teen, and now you’re an 
influence to a younger 
generation. But at the same 
time, you really work to 
educate fans about what’s 
come before you. What 
does that role mean to you? 

It means a lot, espe¬ 
cially if you recognize 
that I do my homework— 

I only pay attention to the 
greats. I love music and I 
study music: The way that 
I’m into it, I want every¬ 
body else to be into it like 
that, too. So that’s why I 
stay on top of my game. 

It’s not about me so much 
personally—I’m not trying 
to be the richest or flash¬ 
iest rapper, but I’m going 
to give you everything that 
comes with me so you can 
see how to work within 
the rap game correctly. 

What’s the best Wiz Khalifa 
album to smoke to? 

Everybody’s going to 
say Kush & Orange Juice, 
but I’m going to say Prince 
of the City 2. 

Do you approach every 
record with a different 
mindset? 

Yeah, totally. It’s really 
based off of my life and 
where I’m at; that’s where 
I get my subject mat¬ 
ter from. But the music- 
like the groove and the 
vibe—is usually a culmi¬ 
nation of me trying some¬ 
thing new, based off of 
what I hear. If people are 
doing one thing, I’m try¬ 
ing to figure out some¬ 
thing totally different. And 
then I get really bored and 
frustrated with other peo¬ 
ple’s music, too, because 


everything sounds the 
same. 

That seems like it would be 
a cause of frustration as an 
artist: As soon as you figure 
out a cool new thing, every¬ 
one else just copies you. 

[Laughs] For sure. 

You’ll do cruising music, 
then something really hard, 
and then something really 
poppy. 

It’s crazy, man. It took 
me a long time to develop 
my style. A project like 
Star Power can be heav¬ 
ily Bay Area-influenced, 
while Kush & Orange Juice 
can show the cool side of 
me and Cabin Fever can 
show the hood side of me. 
A lot of people don’t know 
I originally intended to do 
Kush & Orange Juice and 


Cabin Fever back to back. 
But everybody latched 
onto Kush & Orange Juice 
really quickly. It was good 
for me, but I always had 
it in the back of my mind 
that I had a bigger story 
for people. 

Kush & Orange Juice was an 
unprecedented success for 
you. Because of its singular 
sound and your diversity 
as an artist, do you ever 
feel like its success almost 
pigeonholed you? 

I don’t feel like that 
at all, because every art¬ 
ist needs a classic. Peo¬ 
ple hght for that, and they 
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We have an upcoming presi¬ 
dential election. Do you think 
the candidates should be 
talking more about legalization 
and other issues surrounding 
weed? 

I think it would help, 
because our vote counts. I feel 
like the more people are pro¬ 
weed, the more you’ll get a dif¬ 
ferent crowd coming out to 
vote. But there’s a lot of shit 
going on. When you talk about 
just one or two things in poli¬ 
tics, it’s cool—but at the end of 
the day, let’s worry about black 
people. The government needs 
to quit shooting us. 

You just did a song with the 
legendary Harlem rapper Max 
B, who’s currently incarcerated. 
What’s your relationship like? 

We’re cool. It’s just like a 
friendship thing: As long as I 
know he’s supported, I don’t 
even got to do nothing crazy 
to get in the way, you know 
what I mean? I’m going to 
talk to him here and there 
just to make sure his soul is 
all right. We don’t even got 
to talk about music—we just 
laugh together. 

How do you stay on top of 
culture with such a busy 
schedule? 

Really, me and my homies 
talk a lot; I like to have intel¬ 
ligent conversations. We all 
just bring it back together. 

A lot of it is that I just pick 
up on information. I’m really 
opinionated too, and I feel 
like I know a lot of shit with¬ 
out even knowing it. So I 
might just say some shit with¬ 
out even really knowing 
about it, but it sounds like I 
know what I’m talking about. 
[Laughs] 

I think that comes with travel¬ 
ing the world. 

It expands your mind. Like, 
now I want to learn a differ¬ 
ent language. I never really 
cared to, but I feel dumb 
when I go places and I don’t 
know what they’re saying. So 


it’s like, “Fuck, I got to learn a 
whole ’nother language, man. 
Fuck it.” 

“Call Waiting” is another of my 
favorite songs on Khalifa. It has 
almost a soulful reggae vibe 
to it. Would you ever consider 
making a reggae album? 

It would be fun to make an 
album full of songs like “Call 
Waiting.” That’s my soul com¬ 
ing out; there’s a lot of feeling 
in that song. The writing in 
there is really good, because it 
sounds like I’m talking about 
a girl, but I’m actually talk¬ 
ing about the weed man. The 
weed man can play with your 
emotions, you know what 
I’m saying? So I just wrapped 
the emotions up and made it 
sound like I was talking about 
a girl. I would love to make 
a reggae album where every 
song was a love song about 
weed. 

You’re releasing your own 
strain soon, called Khalifa 
Kush. Care to talk about that? 

Yeah, so Khalifa Kush, 
we’re actually growing it— 

I’ve seen the actual babies, 
and they’re getting big. The 
first batch is almost ready, 
and it’s going to be out and 
available on 4/20 in dispensa¬ 
ries. It’s straight Kush, but it’s 
an upper. Everybody thinks 
that when you smoke Kush, it 
brings you down, but it really 
brings you up. It’s super¬ 
strong, too, so take it in small 
doses. Unless you’re a power 
smoker, in which case, smoke 
up! 

What inspired you to put it out? 

I just kind of wanted to 
do my own Kush for my per¬ 
sonal use, and it turned into 
an opportunity to help every¬ 
body else out. I started real¬ 
izing, “Wow, this isn’t just kid 
weed—this is sophisticated 
pot right here.” 

Weed is the new wine. 

Yep. It’s wine, and Khalifa 
Kush is at the top of its—fuck 
it, whatever the word for the 
best wine is. 











































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subject Topping Flowering Plants 

FROMTre 

I have a few plants that 
have been in the ground 
since late May. Two of my 
plants are 12 feet tall. I’m 
concerned because a few 
of my neighbors have 
commented. The buds 
are just starting to form, 
so they’re not ready for 
harvest. What if I was to 
top off, say, a foot of the 
plant to make it less vis¬ 
ible? Would that kill it? 


Dear Tre, 

Topping your plants while flow¬ 
ering won’t kill them, but it will 
surely effect their yield. Tak¬ 
ing off the main branches after 
flowering has begun will heav¬ 
ily impact your future harvest 
weight, limiting what you reap 
from those branches. The side 
branches will end up filling out a 
bit more, so it may not be a huge 
loss, but all topping should be 
done during the vegetative stage, 
and preferably not within two 
weeks or so of the plant starting 
its flowering stage. 


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subject Harvesting Outdoors 
from: Conner 


I’ve done small grows the past two sum¬ 
mers, so I’m basically a beginner. I just 
want to be able to grow the best mari¬ 
juana I can outdoors. I want them to be 
the bushiest plants with the best yields 
and the highest THC levels. I hope to get 
serious in the marijuana business not 
just because I love smoking it, but also 
because I hope to grow marijuana for 
medical use to help others. If you can give 
me some tips on what soil I should use, 
what nutrients I should put in the water, 
or anything special I can do to help grow 
more and bigger buds with higher THC, I 
would appreciate it. 

Dear Conner, 

It’s easy to get a decent harvest of out¬ 
door buds as long as you take certain fac¬ 
tors into account. The most important 
aspects are the amount of direct sunlight 
your plants receive, the genetics of the 
plants you choose to grow, and the care 


with which you harvest, dry and cure 
your finished buds. So be sure to find a 
good space to put your plants, choose 
great seeds or clones of known origin, 
and put an emphasis on your processing 
techniques once your plants are ripe. 

Native soil is different everywhere, 
and the levels of fertility and drainage 
vary greatly from place to place. Your 
best bet is to send some soil samples to 
a lab for testing so you’ll know exactly 
what you need to do to make it bet¬ 
ter. I believe in no-till gardening, which 
means you continue to place composted 
material on top of your soil without ever 
having to dig it up. Some growers recom¬ 
mend digging up the soil the first time 
you plant in it, and this is dependent on 
how rich your soil is in the first place. 

As for water, plants in good soil and 
full sun will need a lot of it. Use plain 
water often, but also plan for feedings 
with a nutrient solution. I prefer organic 
formulations and always advise using 
less than the manufacturer’s recom¬ 
mended amount unless you’ve detected 


a deficiency. Drip systems work quite 
effectively on outdoor plants, delivering 
a near-constant supply of water without 
overdoing it and reducing the amount of 
water lost to evaporation and overflow. 


subject Phenotypes 
from Mayhem 

I’m trying to figure out how I was able to 
grow two totally different strains from the 
same batch of seeds. One is indica, the 
other sativa. These plants are all second- 
generation from a plant I grew last year 
that produced about 50 seeds total. Of the 
50 seeds, I planted 25, and I now have 15 
mature plants, 10 of which are indicaAook- 
ing and five more like sativas. The indicas 
are at what I call the “sweet stage” and 
ready to harvest, while the sativas need at 
least another two weeks of growing. 

One plant produced all the seeds I have 
growing at this point, but I most defi¬ 
nitely have two entirely different strains 
developing from those seeds in terms of 
























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size, smell and growth rate. The size difference is also curious, as 
my indica -looking strains are all about 5 to 6 feet tall and bushy, and 
all the sativa -looking plants are 8 to 10 feet tall. My main question 
is: How did I get two entirely different strains growing from seeds I 
removed myself from a bud off a plant that I also grew from a seed 
to full maturity so as to get second-generation seeds? 

Dear Mayhem, 

What you’re experiencing is the genetic diversity of cannabis. 
When a female plant encounters male pollen, the seeds it pro¬ 
duces take on some of the traits from the male and some from 
the female. Furthermore, there can be traits that skip a genera¬ 
tion and get passed down from the “grandparents.” The variety 
expressed in the offspring are known as phenotypes, and this 
is why you’ve experienced two different “strains” popping from 
the same seeds. 

Phenotypes are visible traits, such as the indica- or sativa- 
dominant behavior that your plants are expressing. Marijuana 
breeders choose the most desirable traits and try to breed them 
into successive generations, but after the first or second cross, 
this variety will continue to exist in the offspring. This is a sim¬ 
ple way to explain a complex phenomenon, but you should 
really read up on plant breeding to truly understand pheno¬ 
types, genotypes and what they mean for cannabis growers. 


subject Lighting for Auto-Flowering Plants 
from Tom M. 

High! I’m a lifelong subscriber and reader of High Times, so great 
job, guys and girls! Here’s my question: Recently, I was blessed 
with acquiring some White Widow auto-flowering seeds. I’ve been 
a longtime cultivator but have never had an opportunity to grow 
any auto-flowering strains. I am very excited to see these beauti¬ 
ful ladies mature; they are very short, stocky, bushy plants, only 10 
inches tall at the moment. I’ve got them under 24 hours of light at 
this time, and my thinking is that being under 24 hours of light will 
make them produce the largest yield—but given my inexperience 
with auto-flowering strains, I don’t know if this is even possible. So 
is it a good idea to keep an auto-flowering strain under 24 hours 
of light, or do they still need periods of darkness to stimulate the 
flowering cycle? If so, what would you suggest as a dark period for 
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I don’t recommend using a 24-hour light regimen for auto-flow¬ 
ering plants (or any cannabis plants, for that matter). Plants 
need at least a few hours of darkness to process the light and 
water they take in during the daylight hours, because this is 
when they actually grow I recommend an 18-hour-on/6-hour-off 
lighting schedule if heat and electrical costs are an issue, and 20 
hours on/4 hours off if those costs aren’t a problem. Either way, 
don’t change the lighting schedule once you’ve decided on one. 



subject Grow Box 
from Kelly Leak 

Let’s say I have the room, budget and desire for a grow box. I own 
my home and have no kids, guests or visitors. I consume about an 
ounce of tomatoes myself every four weeks. I’d love to grow some 
excellent tomatoes for myself and maybe a little extra. If I’m going 
to do this, I’m only going first-class: I have the time and patience, 
and I want to eat the best tomatoes that can be grown. To keep 
from having a spike in power use, I’m very interested in LEDs. Doing 
my homework and researching the grow box is just as interesting 
to me as anything else. I’m pretty sure that a C0 2 system, a cloning 
chamber and a good odor-filtration system are items that I just can’t 
do without. Looking forward to taking your advice on tomato grow¬ 
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Love the name—I’m a big fan of the original Bad News Bears. Any¬ 
way, as far as grow boxes go, there’s quite a variety of options. The 
top-of-the-line units from BC Northern Lights are exceptional 
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There are certainly cheaper grow boxes out there, but since 
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14 cup packed brown sugar 
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14 cup raw honey 


Get decadent this summer with a sandwich of ganja 
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Perfect around a campfire or torched by a dabber’s flame, these triple-THC S’Mores 
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If you live in a prohibition state, don’t despair; we’ll have recipes for DIY pot choco¬ 
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First I hear that medical mari¬ 
juana laws don’t increase teen 
use, then I hear they do, then I 
hear they don’t again. So which 
is it? 

Sheriff JB 

Howdy Sheriff, 

The correct answer is: They 
don’t. The study suggesting 
that medical cannabis laws 
increase teen use never fac¬ 
tored in an important piece 
of data: Teen use was already 
higher in the states that 
passed medical marijuana 
laws. In other words, with the 
proper statistical controls in 
place, no effect was seen. 


Is cannabidiol an antidepressant? 
Bobby McFeeling 

Hi Bobby, 

Animal research suggests 
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the same ways that some 
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we’re years away from 
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What’s up with all the cannabis 
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The number of cannabis- 
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state went from 78 out of 
10,000 in 2012 to 163 out of 
10,000 in 2014. But before we 
all freak out, that’s a jump 
from 0.0078 to 0.0163 percent 
Yes, the number of ER visits 
has doubled, and everyone 
traveling to Colorado should 
start low and go slow—but 
passing a law prohibiting 
cheerleading would likely have 
a greater impact on ER visits. 
In other words, don’t let this 
alarmist nonsense undo all of 
Colorado’s progress. 



Can you tell me the latest on can¬ 
nabis and IQ? 

Gene Ingenium 


Yo Gene, 

New data on sets of twins in 
which only one used mari¬ 
juana show that the toking 
twin did not consistently score 
lower on IQ, tests. Also, some 
of the IQ differences that did 
appear showed up prior to 
use, making the argument that 
they were caused by cannabis 
even weaker. I still don’t think 
teens should use cannabis, but 
those given to panicking about 
its alleged effects on IQ need 
to mellow out. 

Dr. Mitch Earleywine is a 
professor of psychology at 
SUNYAlbany and the author 
of Understanding Marijuana 
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A LOT HAS HAPPENED since 
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about a year ago. The craft 
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A host of rosin presses have hit 
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It’s time to remove cannabis from the federal government's 
list of forbidden substances. 




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stances Act of 1970, the cannabis 
plant and its organic cannabi- 
noids are classified as Schedule I—the 
most restrictive category available under 
the law. As summarized by the DEA: 
“Schedule I drugs are the most danger¬ 
ous drugs of all the drug schedules, with 
potentially severe psychological or physi¬ 
cal dependence.” 

Substances in this category must meet 
three specific criteria for inclusion: They 
must possess “a high potential for abuse”; 
have “no currently accepted medical use” 
in the US; and lack “accepted safety for 
use... under medical supervision.” Sub¬ 
stances that don’t meet all of these crite¬ 
ria must, by law, be placed in the CSA’s less 
restrictive categories (Schedules II through 
V) and are regulated for legal use accord¬ 
ingly. (For example, Schedule II substances 
like morphine and methadone are available 
by prescription.) Alcohol and tobacco—two 
substances that pose far greater dangers to 
human health than cannabis—aren’t sub¬ 
ject to restrictions under the CSA at all. 

Federal law grants the US attorney gen¬ 
eral power to reschedule (i.e., reclassify) a 
controlled substance. In practice, however, 
this power has been delegated to the DEA, 
with input from both the Food and Drug 
Administration and the Department of 
Health and Human Services. Federal law 


also allows third parties to petition these 
agencies to consider rescheduling a partic¬ 
ular controlled substance. 

These days, public, scientific and, most 
importantly, political pressure is mount¬ 
ing to finally reschedule cannabis. Like no 
other president before him, Barack Obama 
has changed the prohibition dynamic 
by issuing numerous executive-branch 
memos allowing greater autonomy for 

Federal law grants the US 
attorney general power to 
reschedule (i.e., reclassify) 
a controlled substance. 

states that have medical and recreational 
laws on their books. 

While NORML began the entire 
rescheduling debate back in 1972 by 
launching its seminal 22-year lawsuit, 
NORML vs. the DEA, today the organiza¬ 
tion has been joined by numerous others 
seeking relief from cannabis’s prohibi¬ 
tive Schedule I status. A few years ago, a 
half-dozen governors petitioned the White 
House to reclassify the drug to allow for 
the greater integration of cannabis com¬ 
merce in mainstream society. 

Some of rescheduling’s biggest propo¬ 
nents these days are banks and credit-card 
companies, which are prohibited from 


doing business with people involved in 
cannabis commerce. They’ve been joined 
by some large pharmaceutical interests 
and bio-research firms, which are ham¬ 
pered by cannabis’s highly restricted sta¬ 
tus under the CSA. 

Would-be hemp producers claim that 
low-THC cannabis plants produce suf¬ 
ficiently high enough amounts of can- 
nabidiol to create a valuable source for 
high-CBD medical products. They’re 
seeking rescheduling, too. Even anti-pot 
groups like Project SAM acknowledge 
that the DEA’s classification of cannabis is 
without scientific merit. 

However, the fear exists that the 
agency may decide to do nothing and 
instead let the next president deal with 
the dilemma. Or it could simply seek to 
reschedule CBD, while keeping all other 
cannabis products in Schedule I. 

NORML supports any rescheduling 
of cannabis to a less restrictive category 
under the Controlled Substances Act. How¬ 
ever, public opinion, science, commerce 
and common sense now squarely dictate 
that a minor rescheduling (say to Sched¬ 
ule II, which would still place cannabis on 
a par with cocaine and amphetamine) is 
insufficient. Ideally, cannabis—which is far 
less dangerous than unscheduled drugs 
like tobacco and alcohol—should not be 
included in the CSA at all. 


FREEDOM FIGHTER 


By Kevin Mahmalji, NORML national outreach coordinator 


A Cannabis 
Careerist 

Carlos Hermida brightens the 
legalization scene in the Sun¬ 
shine State. 

He graduated from the University of 
South Florida with bachelor degrees 
in religious studies, philosophy and 
business management. Then he 
continued his education at Nova 
Southeastern University, earning 
a master’s degree in business 
administration with a concentration 
in entrepreneurship. 

So what did Carlos Hermida 


do with all these sterling 
credentials? Since mari¬ 
juana is his passion, he 
pursued a career in the 
cannabis industry. But 
first he decided to educate 
himself further: He enrolled at 
Oaksterdam University in California 
for extensive training in cultivation 
and then moved on to the Nirvana 
Wellness Center in San Jose, which 
gave him the chance to learn 
more about medical marijuana by 
working closely with patients as a 
budtender. 


Two years ago, he 
returned to Florida 
and became a senior 
instructor for Medical 
Marijuana Tampa, a 
cannabis-education insti¬ 
tute. He currently teaches 
cultivation at the Florida Cannabis 
Coalition. 

Carlos is also the director of 
operations for the Gluu, a software 
platform that facilitates distribution 
for dispensaries, cultivation opera¬ 
tions and smoke shops. He has also 
joined forces with Christopher Cano 


to form Central Florida NORML, 
which has become a recognized 
leader in the legalization movement, 
ensuring that Sunshine Staters are 
educated about the benefits of can¬ 
nabis through efforts like its weekly 
podcast. The Rotation. 

“If you can get legislative 
changes and voter initiatives 
approved in a good-ol’-boy, Repub¬ 
lican-supermajority, Southern state 
like Florida,” Carlos points out, “you 
can do it anywhere. But nothing 
is going to change unless you get 
involved, too!” 









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Barrett Slome of CannaSutra believes in a modern revolution. 



How did you get into 

business, which I called 

patients were already 

in 2009,1 saw 10,12,14, 

how the body feels. That’s 

the cannabis industry? 

Weed for Free where I 

paying, but they were 

IB cultivators a day. I was 

why terpenes are so 

At the end of 2008,1 

delivered top quality 

not working. They didn’t 

incredibly picky. I wouldn’t 

important. Aromatherapy 

partnered with the largest 

indoor marijuana for $35 

have a lot of disposable 

buy product unless the 

is not a make-believe idea. 

indoor medical marijuana 

an eighth. That was a 

income, so there was 

ash burned white and the 

Smells put you in certain 

grower in the state. He 

price point that hadn't 

no easy way for them 

formation was correct. 

moods. 

was unhappy with the 

reached the market 

to wean themselves off 

Here we are in 2016 and 

CannaSutra is our retail 

relationship he had with 

yet. What I learned very 

narcotic medication. 

so many companies’ can¬ 

business. Then we have 

the facility at the time. So 

quickly was there were 


nabis does not burn white. 

YDK Genetics, which is our 

we started some farms 

a lot of patients who 

But you’re now 

You have to take the 

cultivation arm. We also 

and some warehouses in 

needed this product, but 

the director of a 

time to make sure that 

run Loralax Labs, which 

Northern California and I 

the market price at the 

dispensary. 

their cannabis has been 

does hydrocarbon extrac¬ 

realized-wow, I'd better 

time made it prohibitive 

That’s right-Canna- 

flushed properly. If you 

tion and purification. Then 

have some patients to 

for people trying to get 

Sutra in Studio City. At 

don’t, it totally destroys 

we have a business that 

justify this cannabis. I 

off pain meds and using 

the end of the day what 

the taste of the cannabis, 

we’re tentatively calling 

got into the retail side of 

alternatives. No insurance 

makes us special is our 

and taste and smell are 

Terp Sap, which is our C0 2 

things first, with a delivery 

would honor this. So many 

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expand like businesses in 
Colorado and Washington 
and other more highly 
regulated states have 
been able to. However, 
more recently we’ve 
begun to expand given 
the new medical cannabis 
regulations in California 
and pending recreational. 
So we’ve really put a 
lot of resources behind 
expanding these different 
businesses. 

I'm bringing in indus¬ 
trial-scale, industrial qual¬ 
ity equipment, with guys 
in the cannabis industry 
who’ve been operating 
this equipment for years. 
They’re serving the indus¬ 
try with the cutting-edge 
capability to give people 
the cleanest, tastiest 
medicine possible. 


What's your approach 
to the cannabis plant 
itself? 

I see a revolution. I'm 
fortunate to be highly 
educated with a level 
of awareness that a lot 
of people don’t have 
the chance to have. I've 
studied theology and 
philosophy and law. It’s 
allowed me to see the 
structural inefficiencies in 
our political system, in our 
social structure and in our 
financial system. I live in a 
world that I don’t want to 
live in. I don’t want it to be 
like this. 

I know I can do some¬ 
thing right now. There are 
so many people between 
the ages of 18 and 27 who 
are are unemployed with 
no purpose in their lives. 


Sounds like you’re 
covering all bases. 

Yep. And we have a 
joint venture with Echo 
Pharmaceuticals in the 
Netherlands to bring their 
patented formulations to 
the over-the-counter mar¬ 
ket in the US. We’re calling 
that business Noids RX. 


What's the toughest 
thing about running a 
cannabusiness? 

It’s been incredibly 
difficult to do business 
in California. It would 
be difficult anywhere 
without banking and 
other types of services. 
We haven't been able to 


They want a purpose; 
they’re good kids. They 
want to a do give back 
and help the world. Canna¬ 
bis is a way to help them 
get involved in changing 
the political and social 
structure of the country. 

And, of course college 
costs a fortune. 

We're making a mis¬ 
take. We think education 
is business. It is, but it 
also needs to be highly 
regulated because educa¬ 
tion is the foundation of 
our society. The purpose 
of education is to have an 
well-informed elector¬ 
ate so that when they 
make decisions those are 
decisions are educated, 
not based on feelings and 
ideology. 


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6155 Blue Star Highway 
Saugatuck, MI 49453 
269-857-1188 

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lakeshorealternatives.com 

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WASHINGTON 


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Fax: (206) 588-1596 
purplecrosspatientcare.org 
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P.O. Box 47023, Stn. 425 
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8749 Holloway Drive 
West Hollywood, 

CA 90069 
310-652-0991 or 
800-420-LAWS (5297) 
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Marijuana & criminal 
defense since 1967. 
Director of L.A. NORML. 
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NORML Legal Committee 
Lifetime Member 
15260 Ventura Blvd., 

Ste 1400 
Sherman Oaks, 

CA 91403 

Phone: 818-784-2700 
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Cannabis expertise, 
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McAllister Law Office, 
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James Davis 

Law Office of James 
Davis, P.A. 

300 West Adams St, 

Ste 550 

Jacksonville, FI 32202 
Office: 904.358.0420 
Fax: 904.353.1359 
Criminal defense 
focusing on drug cases. 

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The Law Office of A. 
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500 S. Country Farm Rd, 
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Stephen W. Dillon 

Dillon Law Office 

3601 N. Pennsylvania St. 

Indianapolis, IN 46205 

317-923-9391 

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Chair, NORML Board 
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Barrett Law Firm, P.A. 
280 N. Court 
Colby, KS 67701 
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Zalkind, Duncan & 
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65A Atlantic Ave. 
Boston, MA 02110 
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Cannabis Counsel PLC 
2930 Jefferson Avenue 
East 

Detroit, MI 48207 
313-446-2235 
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2627 E. Beltline Ave SE, 

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3133 N.W. 63 rd Street 
Oklahoma City, 

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200 N Harvey Street, 

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Portland, OR 97201 
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525 Elm Street 
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2900 Tower Life Bldg. 
San Antonio, TX 78205 
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Attorney At Law 
700 N Pearl Street, 

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Dallas, Texas 75201 

214.526.1900 

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